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Government & Politics
Worcester DA sounds alarm over new criminal discovery rules
April 1, 2025District attorneys are scrambling to adjust to updated criminal rules for turning over information, with the heightened workload adding more pressure to an already-strained workforce, Worcester County DA Joseph Early Jr. told lawmakers.
April 1, 2025
Leominster woman charged for posing as healthcare worker, stealing $28K
March 31, 2025The AGO alleges between August and November, Henaku stole the bank cards of at least 16 elderly victims.
March 31, 2025
Healey extends remote meeting flexibility for public bodies
March 31, 2025Gov. Maura Healey moved Friday to extend COVID-era remote and hybrid meeting allowances for public bodies until mid-2027, avoiding their potential expiration next week.
March 31, 2025
Mass. unemployment ticked up slightly in February
March 28, 2025The statewide unemployment rate in Massachusetts rose slightly in February, above the national rate and where the Massachusetts rate was a year ago.
March 28, 2025
Nantucket appeals federal approval of SouthCoast offshore power project
March 28, 2025Giving President Donald Trump company in his opposition to offshore wind power projects, the Town of Nantucket filed an appeal in federal court Thursday, alleging that the SouthCoast Wind project was improperly permitted and will harm the island's
March 28, 2025-
Plumbers say droughts should spark interest in gray water bill
March 28, 2025After 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
March 28, 2025
Wholesale power prices in region rose 300% in February
March 28, 2025Ratepayers 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.
March 28, 2025
Fed $$$ has continued to come in, T chief says
March 28, 2025The MBTA has not had any federal grants rejected or revoked amid a major belt-tightening campaign by the Trump Administration.
March 28, 2025
Healey warns about researchers leaving, students staying away
March 28, 2025Gov. 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.
March 28, 2025
Inspector general: Cannabis Control Commission initially failed to collect up to $1.73M in fees, as agency staffers lacked supervision
March 27, 2025CCC Executive Director Travis Ahern pushed back against the dollar amount named by Jeffrey Shapiro.
March 27, 2025
House rejects Gov. Healey's proposed prescription drug tax expected to generate $60M in revenue
March 27, 2025Mariano 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.
March 27, 2025
Boston Market in Worcester seized by state over taxes as chicken franchise spirals
March 27, 2025A 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.
March 27, 2025
North Carolina fiber internet provider expanding into Central Mass., investing $140M in network
March 26, 2025Ripple Fiber intends to begin service in mid-2025.
March 26, 2025
Poll gauges Mass. residents' interest in gas tax reform, congestion pricing
March 26, 2025Asked if Massachusetts should study the use of congestion pricing in and around Boston, 48% said yes and 35% said no.
March 26, 2025
Proposed tax change could help state’s small farms
March 26, 2025A 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.
March 26, 2025
State care agencies under microscope at Worcester hearing as potential third state-run veterans' home is floated
March 26, 2025At a Joint Ways and Means Committee hearing in Worcester, the secretary described the next budget cycle as being about the "organizational maturation" of the Executive Office of Veterans Services.
March 26, 2025
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