Government & Politics

Unemployment rates across Central Massachusetts remained virtually unchanged from July to August, continuing the summer’s trend of low unemployment across the region, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Tuesday by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

The City of Worcester opened its search for a chief equity officer on Friday, looking to fill a role vacant since spring 2022 and after a substantial restructuring.

Since joining Harvard-based Maugel DeStefano Architects eight years ago, Pelletier advanced to the top, first being tapped as a principal by founder Brent Maugel in a 2018 merger that created Maugel DeStefano Architects.

If there is an industry that stands to dramatically contribute to climate change mitigation, it’s building design, and Central Massachusetts architects say they’re poised for the challenge.

Hospital systems are waiting, monitoring, and responding as COVID cases rise, even as they remain far below peak levels.

Shannon O’Brien, chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, has been suspended from her role.

Housing Secretary Ed Augustus floated a few ideas before the Dignity Alliance Massachusetts during a "study session," where he hinted at some policies that may be included in a bond bill the administration plans to file to address the housing affordability and availability crisis in Massachusetts.

Health care spending in Massachusetts is "moving in the wrong direction" 11 years after enactment of a landmark cost-containment law, and regulators will make another pass at convincing lawmakers to support a new approach, a top state official said Wednesday.

Massachusetts snagged an additional $80 million in Federal Highway Administration money, the Healey administration announced, as part of a redistribution of funds that occurs annually.

Gov. Maura Healey will file her plan to close the books on fiscal year 2023 -- and address a tax revenue shortfall previously forecast to be tens of millions of dollars -- in the "next day or two," her budget chief said Tuesday.