Government & Politics

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $425,000 to two Central Massachusetts businesses.

Business groups are ramping up the pressure on Beacon Hill to use state dollars, not employer taxes, to repay the federal government for an unemployment insurance error committed by the Baker administration.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is implementing immediate and upcoming cuts to hiring, spending, and employment.

Central Lab Partners and its owner Cynthia Norton of West Boylston were among seven entities indicted on Monday by the Suffolk County Statewide Grand Jury following charges brought by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.

State government leaders in Massachusetts are trying to instigate a building boom to address a housing shortage marked by high rents and sale prices, but a top housing official is now warning that headwinds from Washington could threaten their efforts.

The Cannabis Control Commission is asking lawmakers to fund its work at $30.8 million in fiscal year 2026.

The massive wave of federal layoffs is starting to have a modest but noticeable impact on Massachusetts residents, the Healey administration indicated after launching a website Friday to connect fired workers with other public and private job opportunities in the commonwealth.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts inched upward in January, remaining a shade higher than the rate for the country as a whole, officials announced Friday.

These private donations may soon become significantly more important as the federal government is weighing funding cuts to health research.

In response to the President Donald Trump Administration’s threat to potentially cut off federal funding, UMass Chan Medical School is assembling a committee to navigate the rapidly changing and uncertain DEI landscape of higher education.