Maura Healey

Regulating artificial intelligence, creating an agricultural disaster relief fund and boosting food security emerged as areas of focus that lawmakers could tackle in 2024 following a batch of committee votes.

December is a "significant month" for state tax collections, but receipts through the month's halfway point trailed last December's pace by more than 8 percent.

Massachusetts will fail to hit a major emissions reduction requirement in 2030 unless Beacon Hill passes significant legislation to accelerate progress, leaders of a top advocacy group warned Wednesday.

The bill seeks to kickstart housing production, upgrade the state's aging and neglected public housing stock, and convert state land into housing-ready plots.

Massachusetts has netted a significant federal grant to put towards the daunting cost of replacing the narrow and sometimes dangerous Sagamore Bridge.

Governor Maura Healey’s Administration issued $19 million this year in funding from the state’s Workforce Training Funding Program through October, a number including more than $3.9 million in support of training for 2,500+ jobs in Central Massachusetts.

Enrollment has hit a 10-year low at all five of the state universities and community colleges in Central Massachusetts, with a considerable drop between fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2023.

The governor said her administration "more than doubled" the list of programs whose funding can be withheld from non-compliant cities and towns.

Families in need of emergency shelter will begin temporarily setting up in conference rooms in a state office building in Boston, an unusual development that the top House Democrat said points to the need for overflow shelter sites.

There were 3,515 single-family homes sold in Massachusetts last month, down 16.9 percent from October 2022's 4,228 sales.