Second Suffolk News Today

BOSTON (WHDH) - Middle school students from the Boston area came together to play the first-ever kickball game at Fenway Park Tuesday afternoon.Massachusetts state Reps.<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/boston-middle-school-students-play-kickball-with-state-reps-at-fenway/">Read More</a>

In addition to the presidential primary, Super Tuesday will bring a host of down ballot races.

“We voiced our concerns about the House bill but the Senate bill created a whole new set of concerns," Jim Wallace, executive director of the Gun Owners Action League, told the Herald.

Liz Miranda, elected four years ago as a state representative, returns to Beacon Hill this week to take the oath of office as state senator for the Second Suffolk District. Her swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for Jan. 4 inside the State House. She plans a “Community Inauguration” at Roxbury Community College on Fri., Jan. 6, at 6:30 p.m. Miranda grew up in what’s known as

For Maura Healey and Andrea Campbell, Tuesday’s election was a day to set some markers. Healey, a South End resident, easily dispatched her Republican opponent for governor to become the first woman, and the first openly gay person, to be elected to sit in the Corner Office at the State House. Campbell, a Mattapan resident and former Boston City Councillor, trounced her

State Rep. Liz Miranda, a Roxbury native and the daughter of Cape Verdean immigrants, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary to succeed state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, besting another state representative, a former federal housing official, and a longtime seat holder seeking a comeback. With no Republican candidate expected in November, Miranda is set to take office as the next senator

Polls opened across Boston this morning, with voters getting a final opportunity, after early voting and mail-in ballots, to make their mark in state and local primaries. Maura Healey, who does not face a Democratic primary challenger in the race for governor, will appear in Dorchester at 8 a.m., stopping by the Lower Mills branch of the Boston Public Library system, a polling

Voters in November will choose the first new governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general in eight years, and the first new auditor since President Barack...

Voters in November will choose the first new governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general in eight years, and the first new auditor since President Barack...

The 2nd Suffolk Senate district has become the most expensive race in the state Senate this year.