Government & Politics

Former lieutenant governor nominee Steve Kerrigan, CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center in Worcester, cruised to the top post at the Massachusetts Democratic Party with no opposition Monday night.

Four organizations in Central Massachusetts received grants totaling more than $264,000 to help expand the collection of mattresses, textiles, and food materials as part of the Commonwealth Recycling and Reuse Business Development Grant program on Thursday.

After months of growing unemployment across Central Massachusetts communities, rates decreased in all three of the region’s metropolitan areas tracked by the state between February and March.

The Gov. Maura Healey Administration has allocated $34.3 million from the 2017 Volkswagen settlement to fund electric buses for regional transit authorities and electric vehicle projects. 

Members of the state's Congressional delegation relaunched a push Monday to roll out $25 billion in federal dollars to implement fare-free public transit options across the country. 

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a coalition of 18 state AGs and the inspector general in Washington D.C. in a call for more transparent disclosures of nursing home ownership.

Gov. Maura Healey further reshaped the leadership at the under-fire MBTA on Friday, replacing three members of the agency's board of directors and bringing a former T chief back into the fold.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in March fell to 3.5%, according to the Executive Office of Labor...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan tapped Westborough-based NORESCO to implement a new decarbonization program through an energy savings performance contract.

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority zero-fare bus program will continue at least until June of 2024.