Just days after more than 85% of Bay State voters overwhelmingly approved a bill widening access to public records, Democrats who control Beacon Hill are actively considering ways to derail it. Bills now before the state House and Senate point the way to the coming debate. And public statements by a top Senate leader indicate that the ballot question voters approved on Election Day could be in ...

Advocates say broader voter outreach could have flipped the result, and they're already looking toward future reforms.

Massachusetts voters weighed in on nine ballot questions​ for the 2026 election. Here are the results.

Opponents narrowly defeated a ballot measure to reduce minimum lot sizes statewide to spur housing production across Massachusetts, the Associated Press says. The big picture: The results preserves Massachusetts' 351 cities and towns ability to control the residential landscape in their communities, but shows voters are desperate for more housing stock. "The fact that this proposal came so close demonstrates the growing recognition that...

Proponents had hoped the measure would boost the construction of so-called starter homes and make homeownership more accessible to working- and middle-class families.

The proposal aimed to encourage more affordable starter homes by allowing single-family houses on smaller lots across much of Massachusetts. The post Voters reject Question 7 on statewide minimum lot sizes appeared first on Boston.com.

None of the nine ballot questions posed to Massachusetts voters this election cycle received more support than Question 1, which would require the governor and lawmakers to make public most of the records they produce.

The last time MassLive chatted with Daniel Darris-O’Connor, he was just the youngest member of Billerica’s Select Board, following through on an interest in politics and policy that had taken hold at a young age. Just about a year later, Darris-O’Connor, 19, has parlayed that interest into a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. On Election Day, the rising Democratic star scored ...

The measure would have changed how Massachusetts returns excess tax revenue to residents. The post Campaign behind Question 5 concedes as AP projects measure to fail appeared first on Boston.com.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has been reelected for a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mike Minogue, CBS News projects.