Government & Politics

Across Central Massachusetts, demand has risen for legal representation in asylum and removal proceedings, putting strain on the region’s limited resource pool of attorneys who are themselves facing burnout as they attempt to keep pace with Trump’s rotating door of policy changes.

Where the House bill sprawls into other areas — such as regulating hemp-derived beverages — the Senate version stays more narrowly focused. 

The Massachusetts state auditor is calling into question UMass Memorial Health’s use of $6.2 million it received in COVID relief grants.

A popular YouTube account which explores abandoned buildings featured the Worcester Memorial Auditorium in a new video, giving viewers a behind-the-scenes, unauthorized look at the state of the once-thriving venue.

The Conservation Law Foundation said the bill would "gut the state’s climate law and cut energy efficiency programs that help reduce pollution and utility bills for Massachusetts families."

All Massachusetts residents eligible so far this month for federal government food assistance have received their full...

The new program, supported by a $1-million grant from the National Science Foundation, will lead to the creation of a one-year course to prepare workers for careers in roles needed by the hydrogen sector.

The largest grant went toward funding infrastructure upgrades at the site of King Street Common in Littleton.

Precision Optics says the global aviation AR market is expected to grow more than 20% by 2030, with the technology reducing cost and the potential for training-related accidents. 

Social consumption sites were envisioned under the 2016 marijuana voter law but have yet to launch.