Maura Healey

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents returned to the New Bedford area for a second straight day Tuesday, pushing the two-day arrest total past a dozen and prompting Gov. Maura Healey to join Mayor Jon Mitchell in publicly demanding the administration explain itself. Agents made at least eight arrests Monday in an operation centered on […]

Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Monday stripping away Massachusetts' 24-week gestational limit on abortion, making the state one of ten in the country with no cutoff on how late in pregnancy the procedure can be performed. The "Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act" replaces the state's previous statute which required a threat to the mother's […]