Government & Politics

After a statewide drought last year that fueled wildfires and severely decreased water levels in rivers and streams, plumbers were on Beacon Hill Thursday lobbying for a long overlooked bill to promote gray water recycling and ease pressure on public water systems.

Ratepayers know too well that February was a rough month for retail utility bills in New England, marked by soaring costs that threw household and business budgets out of whack.

The MBTA has not had any federal grants rejected or revoked amid a major belt-tightening campaign by the Trump Administration.

Gov. Maura Healey has spent the last few weeks using her bully pulpit to warn of a brain drain out of Massachusetts, as a consequence of President Donald Trump's cuts to research funding and the threat of foreign-born students being deported.

CCC Executive Director Travis Ahern pushed back against the dollar amount named by Jeffrey Shapiro.

Mariano told top pharmaceutical and biotech leaders at MassBio's "State of Possible" conference that the House would drop the idea that the governor put forward in her $62 billion annual budget bill in January.

A Boston Market location on Park Avenue in Worcester has been seized by state officials, the latest issue for both the location and the once-prominent rotisserie chicken franchise. 

Ripple Fiber intends to begin service in mid-2025.

Asked if Massachusetts should study the use of congestion pricing in and around Boston, 48% said yes and 35% said no.

A pair of western Massachusetts lawmakers made an urgent plea to their colleagues Tuesday to allow smaller farms to access property tax benefits currently available only to their larger peers.