Attorney General Andrea Campbell and prosecutors from other states planned to sue President Donald Trump after his administration issued a directive to pause the distribution of federal funding.

Nearly 40 cats affected by near-record snowfall in Louisiana are arriving at the MSPCA at Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem on Saturday as part of an urgent rescue mission.

Paul Guilbeault’s miniature pinscher Damian went missing in 2017 while the local photographer and his family were in the middle of a cross-country move from Massachusetts to Arizona.

In an interview aired Wednesday night, Trump said he may withhold aid to California until the state adjusts how it manages its scarce water resources. He falsely claimed that California’s fish conservation efforts in the northern part of the state are responsible for fire hydrants running dry in urban areas.

The freeze on federal funding and grants has wide-ranging implications and impacts everything from funding for child care, university research and roads and bridges.

An attorney licensed to practice in California, Massachusetts and before the U.S. Supreme Court was denied a license in Texas. The Texas Board of Law Examiners also denied her taking the bar exam ...

According to the executive order, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Review Council, co-chaired by the secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense, will assess FEMA’s effectiveness over the past four years, comparing its responses to state and private sector efforts of disaster relief.

California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco have sued the Trump administration over President Trump's executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, calling it unconstitutional.

A coalition of 19 states and the City and County of San Francisco have filed a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump and multiple federal agencies,

Big Y will be collecting cash donations for American Red Cross Disaster Relief at all Big Y supermarkets in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Bird flu is now believed to be widespread in Massachusetts and is likely present even in places where there has not been a confirmed positive, state environmental and health officials said Wednesday.

Growing Places opened a new food processing center in the former Waterford St. School in Gardner. The center will process locally grown food for distribution to area schools and hospitals. This story has been updated to fix a typo.