Government & Politics

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is sounding the alarms over plans by the Trump Administration to significantly cut the money spent on biomedical and public health research.

The Center for Women & Enterprise Central MA has laid off Director Racquel Knight.

Former state Sen. Dean Tran was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in prison followed by two years of supervised release, having been convicted of 23 felony counts including COVID and tax fraud, federal prosecutors said.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has closed its investigations into Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick and Framingham Union Hospital, probing sparked by undisclosed hospital-related incidents and complaints filed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association labor union.

Heads or tails? The Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday voted 3-2 to allow sports betting companies to offer wagers on one of the very first actions to take place at this Sunday's Super Bowl, the opening coin toss.

The administration has long pointed to a goal of increasing the statewide supply of year-round housing by 222,000 units over the next decade.

IMA celebrated its 100th year of operation last year, having been founded by Harold Fielding in Worcester in 1924. The firm has 45 employees.

Massachusetts cannabis regulators have sounded the alarm over potentially harmful products sold by two marijuana companies, who are both pushing back against the need for the notice and the state’s haphazard testing system.

Despite all of the uncertainty and changes coming out of Washington and the chronically high cost of living in Massachusetts, Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao says her confidence level is "high."

Individual homelessness levels are severely rising in Massachusetts, and service providers have received no growth in state assistance in two years.