City officials and community leaders walked streets and shelters for the City of Boston’s 46th annual Homelessness Census on ...

The state has capacity for 2.6 times the number of families it is accommodating – leaving 2,351 vacancies last month.

To an untrained eye, the “gross motor room” at the Edgerley Family Horizons Center in Boston looks like any other indoor gym for preschoolers. There are mats on the floor, large foam blocks, shapes ...

Boston will fall under a cold emergency Friday and Saturday with wind chills set to reach as low as -10 degrees, Mayor ...

Massachusetts has ranked among the worst states in the country for homelessness, according to federal data. Massachusetts had the fifth-largest homeless population in the country as of January 2024, ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said the city is powerless to stop a state contractor’s controversial plan to convert a former West Roxbury nursing home into a homeless shelter for families and migrants as ...

Just hours after Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeals voted 6-1 to allow a new family shelter in West Roxbury last week, neighbors filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop it. The shelter, opening in a ...

Healey said she has activated the State Emergency Operations Center and urged the public to stay indoors this weekend.