The 17th century settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony needed a variety ... by Puritans around the year 1630. At the time, ...

Only Ronald Reagan has carried Massachusetts in the last baker's dozen of presidential elections. But inside this deep blue ...

The nine-week voyage of the Puritan ship the Arbella in 1630 is almost as mythologized as the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock. The Arbella was the ship on which Massachusetts Bay Colony’s ...

Drought conditions have reached significant or critical levels in much of Massachusetts, state officials said.

In Massachusetts Bay Colony the first execution was in 1630, but the earliest capital statutes do not occur until later. Under the Capital Laws of New-England that went into effect between 1636 ...

Donald Trump's extraordinary national political comeback in Tuesday's election did not include winning Massachusetts, but there were signs of his momentum in dozens of Bay State communities.

While it’s best known as The Bay State, other popular nicknames for it include the Pilgrim State, the Old Colony State, and ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has won the popular vote in Massachusetts for the 2024 election over former President Donald Trump, CBS News projects, and along with it the state's 11 electoral votes.

Even liberal Massachusetts, a bright blue spot on the red electoral college map, lurched right. Trump clinched a majority of the votes in dozens of Massachusetts towns where he fell short in 2020.

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