After years of grappling with a migrant crisis, Massachusetts officials plan to close all emergency state shelters in hotels and motels in the state this summer, Gov. Maura Healey said Monday. Healey, ...

The first two years of Gov. Maura Healey's term in office were dominated by the state's migrant crisis, and the headlines came at a blistering pace: Images of families sleeping on the floor of ...

The number of families living in the state’s once-overwhelmed emergency shelter system is half of what it was at its peak. Governor Maura Healey insists the costs, which ballooned to $1 billion last ...

But in a very tangible way, the worst of the cold-weather season might have just passed for some of the midstate’s homeless. That’s because, as of Dec. 1, short-term cold weather shelters were opened ...