Representative Niki Tsongas News

UMass Lowell will receive $200,000 to strengthen undergraduate and graduate cooperative education under a congressional appropriations bill finalized last week.

John Kerry says a new stimulus bill should focus on clean energy jobs. Niki Tsongas wants to rebuild libraries and community theaters, and Michael Capuano would spend on roads and housing.

The Lowell Community Health Center got a major down payment on its new digs yesterday.

Supporters of Attorney General Martha Coakley are hailing her victory in the Democratic primary as a historic step for women.

WHEN A governor says no to the all-male Clover Club and a woman is favored to succeed Ted Kennedy, it's time to read the estrogen on the wall.

Martha Coakley is applauded by Gov. Deval Patrick and Sen. John Kerry after her win was announced.

Democrats in Massachusetts answered one big question Tuesday, overwhelmingly selecting state Attorney General Martha Coakley as their nominee to succeed the late Sen.

Senior administration officials signaled yesterday that the United States will continue to commit a significant number of troops and substantial funding to Afghanistan for many years to come, despite a July 2011 deadline set forth by the president last week to begin a drawdown.

Voters in Massachusetts are heading to the polls today to select their favored candidate to succeed the late Ted Kennedy.

Share + Dec 7, 2009 7:28 pm US/Eastern Massachusetts Senate candidates flooded the airwaves and traversed the state on Monday, as they wrapped up their primary campaigns in the race to succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy.

Correction: Because of a reporting error, a story in Saturday's Metro section on the special election for the US Senate incorrectly referred to Niki Tsongas's historical status in the congressional delegation.

As the candidates for U.S. Senate crisscross the state in a final, frenzied scramble for votes, there are signs that the race, once considered a runaway, is tightening.

The campaign events ranged from the low-brow to the high-brow. City Year cofounder Alan Khazei was set to bowl for votes last night after a $500-a-head Back Bay fund-raiser with New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg.

The nation's richest senator - the Bay State's own John Forbes Kerry - has been knocked down a few notches after seeing his fortune sliced by one-third by the fiscal meltdown that ripped down Wall Street.

The region's congressional delegation is greeting President Obama's new strategy for Afghanistan with questions, and in some cases, criticism.

Representative Bill Delahunt is the only member of the Massachusetts delegation who has not endorsed a candidate for US Senate.

US Representative Michael E. Capuano will meet voters today in Brookline with former governor Michael Dukakis.

U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas thinks it might take a "New Deal" to get the economy back on track and people back to work.

FRONT AND CENTER: Will front-runner Martha Coakley hold on for another week and win her primary race, as Niki Tsongas did two years ago? Martha Coakley should be plenty thankful for the holiday weekend.

Jon Golnik has held a number of jobs in his life, reinventing his career each step of the way to satisfy his interests and passions.