Amid tension between the City of Boston and White House Border Czar Tom Homan, Massachusetts cities Chelsea and Somerville filed lawsuits Monday against the Trump administration for attempting to defund police departments over sanctuary city policies.

As March begins, check out events for maple sugaring season in Massachusetts, as well as a vegan market and celebrating restaurants in Boston.

As a local, I think visiting an Irish pub and having a picnic along the Charles River Esplanade are some of the best things to do in Boston.

The proposal has thrown into conflict residents’ desire to preserve cultural space with the need to build more housing.

Dr. Timothy Foster is an orthopedic surgeon with Mass General Brigham who also works at Newton Wellesley Hospital. He told WBZ-TV that emergency rooms and specialist offices across the city are packed full of patients who suffered a slip and fall.

Two Massachusetts cities have become the first East Coast cities to push back on the Trump administration's policy on sanctuary cities.

The cuts, as well as a threatened prosecution of officials “who are deemed insufficiently compliant” with immigration enforcement, were “part of a politicized attack on ‘sanctuary jurisdictions,’” the cities said.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, leaders of both cities contend their sanctuary policies do not conflict with federal immigration law as claimed in recent administration orders.

A pair of Massachusetts cities that maintain “sanctuary” policies have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over threats to cut federal funding if they don’t comply with

Two Massachusetts sanctuary cities, Somerville and Chelsea, filed a federal lawsuit against Trump administration's threats to cut funding due to their immigration policies.