Government & Politics

In response to financial challenges and a dramatically reduced incoming freshman class, Clark University in Worcester will restructure its degree tracks and layoff up to 30% of its faculty. 

The House budget committee teed up cannabis legislation Tuesday morning, polling its members on legislation that would downsize the embattled Cannabis Control Commission and address industry pressure points ahead of a Wednesday formal session for the House.

Less than two weeks after the Senate moved to create a new prescription drug price cap system in Massachusetts, an industry official warned against legislative "leapfrog" that could complicate the most recent round of reforms.

Gov. Maura Healey stepped up her criticism of recent federal immigration enforcement actions in Massachusetts, this time "demanding" immediate information on the reported arrest of a Milford High School junior Saturday.

A key tool to help decarbonize New England’s electricity grid has already been in operation for over a century.

The Boulevard Diner now stands as Central Massachusetts’ sole independently-owned diner operating with any kind of 24-hour model.

Every 36 minutes a Massachusetts hospital worker faces either an act of violence or threat.

Massachusetts could face billions in lost federal revenue and heightened economic risk under the second Trump administration, a budget expert warned lawmakers Thursday, but he emphasized that a broad economic downturn could deal the hardest blow.

Tens of thousands of Bay Staters could lose subsidized health insurance through the Massachusetts Health Connector and premiums could rise for most other members under a suite of reforms in the U.S. House-approved reconciliation bill that Gov. Maura Healey dubbed "devastating."

“These are people's lives they're playing with, and it's horrible,” Hebert said of the Trump Administration’s decision to unilaterally shutter all contract-run Job Centers across the country.