Government & Politics

StartUp Week Worcester will kick off on April 8.

Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday her administration will continue to withhold state funding from cities and towns that fail to comply with a controversial -- but constitutional -- zoning reform law, describing the latest challenges to the measure as "without legal merit."

WuXi has disputed an early WBJ report saying construction at the Worcester site has stopped, although the company declined to provide specifics or give an updated timeline.

A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction Wednesday that temporarily blocks the Trump administration from slashing federal health and research dollars, Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office announced.

In separate publications, Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro and Auditor Diana DiZoglio each detailed overlapping concerns with the relationship between the T and Keolis, which for more than a decade has been under contract to run the commuter rail network.

The report, which was due to be filed in 2023 but was only presented to CCC members last week, is intended to let lawmakers "see and understand what's happening throughout the industry," Commissioner Nurys Camargo said.

Human services provider Making Opportunity Count will lay off 20 employees by April 30 as the Fitchburg-based nonprofit will shutter two of its shelter locations.

The feeling of losing a young child is unimaginable, parents said Monday as they pushed for mandatory bereavement time and sought to boost understanding of a rare category of childhood deaths.

“We’ve been DOGE-ed,” said Christopher Egan, president of Carruth Capital in Westborough, which owns one of the impacted properties.

Most of the money that drove the No on 2 campaign came from a small group of business executives and groups.