The residency requirements could effectively end the law as it's currently applied, meaning newly arrived immigrants could be ...

BOSTON - The heavily scrutinized right-to-shelter law in Massachusetts would change significantly under a new proposal shared ...

Less than a week after condemning security concerns surrounding a lack of background checks performed at shelters, ...

GOP lawmakers want to amend the "right-to-shelter" law, let police work more closely with ICE, and increase transparency from ...

The "changes are appropriate and needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of the state shelter system," Gov. Maura ...

The state’s top education official pledged that Massachusetts schools would protect transgender students, even after a federal judge scrapped President Joe Biden’s expanded Title IX ...

Sen. Bruce Tarr, who has served in the Legislature since the early 1990s, said Republicans must be "respectful" and speak to ...

House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday proposed changes to “course-correct” the state shelter system amid public safety ...

Days after Gov. Maura Healey publicly signaled openness to changing the state’s decades-old right to shelter law, Republican ...

House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday proposed changes to “course-correct” the state shelter system amid public safety concerns and mounting costs, while calling on Gov.<a class="excerpt-read-more" ...

House and Senate Republicans came together to call for urgent reform of Massachusetts’ shelter system in a Tuesday morning press conference.

The GOP lawmakers said their omnibus legislation would change the Supreme Judicial Court's 2017 Lunn decision, by allowing state courts and law enforcement to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...