Government & Politics

Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday will unveil a five-year, $4.12 billion housing bond bill that's packed to the gills with funding and policy reforms aimed at spurring much-needed production of new units, upgrading the aging and neglected public housing stock, and converting state land into housing-ready plots.

Chief People Officer Debra Hilton-Creek will serve as acting executive director of the CCC until the return of Executive Director Shawn Collins, who is out on parental leave until early December.

House Speaker Ron Mariano has been advised that colder weather is not likely to stem the ongoing tide of asylum-seeking migrants into Massachusetts and says Gov. Maura Healey's request for $250 million to help manage the crisis might not be enough to last even until the end of October.

Blessington sees collaboration and outreach as an integral part of her practice at Worcester Community Midwifery.

The unenviable task of selecting the best nominees fell to these three judges, who used their varied expertise and backgrounds to select the Class of 2023.

Worcester has been seeking to grow its life sciences industry, but industry advocates say adopting the opt-in specialized energy code will hinder biotech development in Worcester.

MassDevelopment, the state’s development finance agency and land bank, broke ground on a new 30,745-square-foot public safety center in Devens.

Municipalities want to create programs to provide cheaper, greener power for their residents, and are backing a bill to cut through regulatory red tape and would allow them to get approval more quickly and easily.

Massachusetts is going to run out of places to shelter newly arriving immigrants and other families without housing "very, very soon," leaving the one state in the country that has a legal obligation to shelter unhoused families in a position where "there is not going to be literally any room at the inn," Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said Thursday morning.

UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Lowell have received $8.9 million from the National Institutes of Health in support for their development of home care technology.