The Massachusetts State Lottery is a major source of local aid for cities and towns, delivering hundreds of millions of dollars annually that communities use to improve public safety, schools and ...

HARVARD — A steady flow of customers pulled up to the Harvard General Store one recent afternoon, picking up groceries, beer and wine, or prepared foods like quiche lorraine and split pea and ham soup ...

What a story: State Sen. Janet Cowell, the Raleigh rookie, stands at the bridge, her shield in one hand, her Wharton School finance text in the other. Single-handedly, she halts the Democratic retreat ...

Some Wake County leaders say they’re getting less lottery money by keeping local taxes low. One state lawmaker says he has a plan to change that, but his idea could meet resistance. Currently, money ...

Officials in cities and towns with brisk sales of Massachusetts State Lottery tickets protest, usually during budget season, that the formula for distributing lottery proceeds in the form of local aid ...