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The scandal rocked Walsh’s mayoral administration and prompted him to fire Felix G. Arroyo, one of his cabinet chiefs, in 2017.

The joint motion to stay adjudicatory proceedings until July 21 “in order to engage in settlement negotiations,” was filed June 30 by Stephen J. Orlando, Davis-Hassan’s Boston lawyer, and Candies

State Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton (D-Western Springs) is being called out after adding a campaign logo to a local firetruck during the Independence Day parade.

The Boston City Council President is speaking out about “troubling ethical and legal lapses” among two of his fellow city councilors, Kendra Lara and Ricardo Arroyo, who made headlines recently.

At 69, Ned Lamont is not that much older than me. In this age of senators and presidents aspiring to continue to hold office into their 80s and even 90s, a governor in his late 60s should seem alert a...

Hundreds of new laws will go into effect in Maryland on Saturday, including a gas tax hike and financial relief for retired veterans.

A Boston city councilor has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine after he admitted violating the conflict-of-interest law, according to the State Ethics Commission.

Hawaii has a bunch of new laws designed to make state government, political campaigns and elections more transparent or accountable.

Opinion writer Susan Campbell notes that about 24 of the state's 169 towns have yet to adopt a local Code of Ethics. Since it looks as if many elected leaders failed Ethics 101, cheated on the final, or skipped the course entirely, it's time for every municipality to agree on ethics.

The deal this month in which a former Connecticut Port Authority board member agreed to pay $18,500 to settle a prosecution of ethics laws was a powerful acknowledgment of how widespread and deep corr...