Government & Politics

Worcester cybersecurity firm SideChannel, Inc. reported a 71% year-over-year revenue increase in fiscal 2022, in its first report since combining with Austin encryption company Cipherloc Corp.

Attorney General-elect Andrea Campbell has hired Patrick Moore to be her first assistant attorney general.

Reiterating that affordability and tax reform are among her chief concerns as she prepares to become governor, Maura Healey said Tuesday that she does not see those priorities as being "a wash" when combined with her support for the new income surtax.

The Worcester County unemployment rate in November dropped two tenths of a percentage point from October to 3%, the lowest rate since April 2019, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The state's top environmental protection official will be leaving come January to take over an interstate nonprofit focused on waste management.

Marylou Sudders, who oversaw COVID-19 response efforts and helmed the sprawling health and human services secretariat, plans to retire from public service early next year.

Massachusetts will become the first state in the nation to create a climate chief on the governor's Cabinet, and Gov.-elect Maura Healey on Monday plans to fill that slot with EPA Principal Deputy General Counsel Melissa Hoffer.

Declaring that the largest offshore wind farm in the state's pipeline cannot be financed and built under existing contracts, Commonwealth Wind on Friday asked Massachusetts regulators to scrap the agreements the company reached with utilities and reopen a new round of bidding.

After weeks of sounding the alarm about the downsides of interest rate hikes, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren thinks the more modest approach the Federal Reserve took with its latest increase is still pushing the envelope too far, too fast.

Massachusetts employers added 17,300 jobs in November, labor officials announced Friday, putting the state within striking distance of returning to a pre-pandemic level of employment.