Transportation

A trio of regional business organizations in Massachusetts threw their support behind gig economy giants in the growing debate over pay and benefits for the state's more than 200,000 app-based drivers.

The average gasoline price in Massachusetts has hit the $3 mark, according to a Tuesday press release from the travel association AAA Northeast.

The annual Chapter 90 local road and bridge funding bill appears bound for a conference committee after the Senate on Thursday approved a slightly larger appropriation than the House did when it passed its own version of the bill last week.

Trux, a Framingham dump truck logistics technology company, announced Tuesday it has passed five major milestones during a year of substantial growth.

Gasoline prices in Massachusetts increased three cents this week to an average of $2.98 per gallon of regular unleaded, according to a Monday report from the travel association AAA Northeast.

As pandemic-era restrictions ease across the country and mostly end in Massachusetts, Logan International Airport experienced its busiest passenger month since COVID-19 first struck the state b,ut remains well below pre-pandemic levels.

A Shrewsbury man who owned auto repair shops in Everett and Worcester has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail over a fraud scheme during which prosecutors say he damaged customers’ cars with a sledgehammer in order to inflate appraisal repair quotes.

Arguing that app-based companies such as Uber and Lyft shift costly burdens onto taxpayers by denying drivers employee status, a new coalition of labor, civil rights and racial justice groups launched an effort Tuesday to oppose the tech giants in their effort to rewrite state labor laws.

The average price of regular unleaded gasoline remained the same as last week at $2.95 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the travel association AAA Northeast.

Weekend service will return in July to the entire MBTA commuter rail network, nearly six months after the transit agency stopped running Saturday and Sunday trains on several lines amid upheaval from the pandemic.