Maura Healey

The Senate next week plans to add money back to the state budget by completing House-approved budget veto overrides, Senate President Karen Spilka told reporters Thursday.

The Healey administration on Tuesday blasted out a press release warning that Massachusetts faces $3.7 billion in budget cuts.

Partisan gridlock is bringing the country closer to a potential government shutdown, a move that could create even more uncertainty nationwide, including for state budget writers in Massachusetts.

Worcester-based healthcare system has begun construction on the Groton facility.

Gov. Maura Healey has been applying a full-court press to pass a $400 million bill aimed at strengthening Massachusetts’ research and innovation economy, but lawmakers have left the governor's plans for a "transformative investment" idling in the seven weeks since Healey proposed it.

To qualify for the expedited environmental review, projects must comport with a slate of seven requirements.

The funding comes from a state program for housing in Gateway Cities.

Gov. Maura Healey announced on Thursday a plan charting a path forward for the state's biodiversity conservation goals and pledging to double the pace of land protection.

Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday announced a $2.45 billion spending bill to close the state's books for fiscal year 2025, packing it with a number of outside sections related to federal policy and spending concerns. 

Surrounded by health care advocates and curious tourists peering into Nurses Hall, Gov. Maura Healey signed an expanded shield law Thursday giving patients and providers in Massachusetts a new layer of defense against out-of-state intrusion into reproductive and transgender care.