While the confluence of homelessness and substance use in Boston’s “Mass. and Cass” area persists, Mayor Michelle Wu argued Monday that conditions on the ground have improved dramatically in the year since she took office.
As a a group of political leaders, business groups and universities lobbies the Biden administration to pick Massachusetts to be the home of a new advanced health research agency, the New England Council last week asked the federal government to consider New England more broadly.
Outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker’s mark on the Department of Industrial Accidents is poised to carry on for more than six years, after the governor last week issued 10 nominations for quasi-judicial boards that hear worker’s compensation cases.
Gov. Charlie Baker is glad that his successor, Democrat Maura Healey, has signaled she plans to continue lobbying for some of the tax reforms that the Republican proposed, but he said in an interview that aired Sunday he never expected all of his ideas would become law.
The statewide unemployment rate ticked upward slightly in October to 3.5 percent while employers added another 9,800 jobs, building on strong job growth in September, labor officials reported Friday.
MBTA overseers on Thursday voted to move forward with a reshaped bus map that aims to boost the total amount of service by 25 percent across the board, despite concerns from some riders, advocates and elected officials about route-level changes included in the plan.
One final delay of a couple of weeks looms, and then the long-awaited second and final Green Line Extension branch will open to riders on Dec. 12, MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak announced Thursday.
A flurry of one-time funding injections improved the near-term financial outlook for the MBTA, but with costs growing more quickly than revenues and a still-undetermined amount of spending required to comply with federal orders, that optimism might not last long.
As Encore Boston Harbor looks to expand its gambling offerings into a new development across the street from its existing casino, state regulators are revisiting the 2013 referendum through which Everett voters backed the casino to try to suss out exactly what it was that city residents approved.
High inflation and steady recession talk do not appear to be dampening holiday shopping appetites, according to projections by the Retailers Association of Massachusetts.
In her victory speech from the Fairmont Copley Plaza – the same hotel where Healey capped off a speedy ascension into state politics with her 2014 election as attorney general – Governor-elect Maura Healey on Tuesday night said that she and running mate Kim Driscoll were elected with “a mandate to act.”
Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly chose Democrat Maura Healey as the next governor of Massachusetts. Meanwhile, a hot-button tax policy ballot question remained close Wednesday morning.
Massachusetts ranked 34th in the Tax Foundation’s annual business tax climate index released last month, but analysts at the think tank say the state’s ranking would slide all the way down to 46th if the income surtax on Tuesday’s ballot were in effect right now.
Nearly 100 days after its original due date, the House and Senate on Wednesday struck an agreement on a major economic development spending package that could be on Gov. Charlie Baker’s desk by the end of the day Thursday.
The first checks and direct deposits from a nearly $3 billion pot of excess tax revenue will head back to taxpayers starting on Tuesday when the calendar flips to November, the Baker administration announced Friday.
Citing “strong” ridership, state officials and Amtrak announced Friday that train service for passengers traveling between western Massachusetts and New York City will become permanent.
While Orange Line slow zones continue to frustrate riders who expected to see more improvements after the shutdown, MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak is defending the speed restrictions as “prioritizing safety.”
The MBTA will need to hire more than 750 new bus drivers to achieve an envisioned overhaul that would boost systemwide bus trip frequency by 25 percent, a daunting task amid a challenging labor market, officials said.
By almost any metric – and researchers looked at more than a few in a new 122-page report – the region’s housing market remains in dire condition for renters and prospective homeowners.
