Government & Politics

With frustrations mounting over the closure of Carney Hospital at the end of August, the Boston City Council adopted a resolution Wednesday calling for a public health emergency and applying new pressure on the state to protect patient care.

"Things are moving quickly I think right now in the bankruptcy court," Healey told reporters at the State House. "I'm cautiously optimistic but it's right now in the hands of the lenders."

"If you build a nice affordable development in 10 years that's great, but by then Massachusetts's low-income residents will be living in Rhode Island," Progressive Mass Director Jonathan Cohn said.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Tuesday approved the agreement that Massachusetts state government made to provide $30 million in advance Medicaid payments to keep a handful of Steward Health Care hospitals here open through August as the company tries to sell them.

Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday she is "thrilled" with Kamala Harris' selection of Tim Walz as her running mate, calling herself a "proud colleague" of the second-term Minnesota governor.

The federal government is awarding $389 million to the New England states for regional electric infrastructure upgrades.

MassBenchmarks Senior Contributing Editor Alan Clayton-Matthews flagged in his write-up that "Massachusetts continues to have a cost-of-living problem."

AMSC seeks to bolster its growing presence in the defense sector through the $61.4-million purchase of a NWL, a New Jersey-based firm.

Nine Worcester County nonprofits including healthcare organizations, schools, and places of worship received nearly half a million in state grants to finance security updates needed to protect them from potential hate crimes and terror attacks.

A Fitchburg-based cannabis cultivation is seeking to construct a new extraction lab to its facility, but lingering odor issues impacting neighbors near the site are creating complications.