Maura Healey

Massachusetts Democrats on Saturday afternoon endorsed Maura Healey's quest to move from the attorney general's office to the governor's suite but also put Sonia Chang-Díaz on the September primary ballot, ensuring that Healey will have some intraparty competition before she could turn her full attention to any Republican opponents.

Worcester Business Journal spoke to Democratic candidates for governor Sonia Chang-Díaz and Maura Healey ahead of the party's convention in Worcester, to ask about their stances on the state’s economic issues, particularly how they pertain to Central Massachusetts.

Attorney General Maura Healey is suing 13 companies that manufacture firefighting foam containing ubiquitous forever chemicals in hopes of getting the chemical companies to "pay back every last dollar our state has spent on their products to clean up the contamination."

In the latest round of the fight between Silicon Valley and Massachusetts regulators over whether workers for companies like Uber and Lyft should be considered full-time employees, the businesses are pushing a UCLA study showing gig workers have had an economic impact of $899 million in Worcester County.

Massachusetts cities and towns will split more than $210 million in money paid by opioid manufacturers and distributors, while state government will get another $310 million to invest in ongoing efforts to rein in the addiction and overdose epidemic, officials announced Tuesday.

Framingham-based Superior Carpentry, Inc. and its owners are being fined $540,000 over allegations they failed to pay prevailing wages to employees, Attorney General Maura Healey announced on Monday.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against a Worcester home health agency for allegedly falsely billing MassHealth, according to a Friday press release from Healey’s office.

On Wednesday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s Office announced it had certified 17 petitions for the November 2022 ballot, which potentially could become proposed laws if they receive enough signatures and then are approved by voters next year.

Attorney General Maura Healey will now require that all staff in her office get vaccinated against COVID-19, broadening a policy she announced in May that required certain public-facing employees be vaccinated when they return to in-person work.

On Wednesday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced a $26-billion dollar resolution with major opioid manufacturers and distributors such as Cardinal, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Johnson & Johnson.