Transportation

Fitchburg has received a $3-million infrastructure grant from the state to remake Main and Boulder streets downtown, the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration announced Thursday.

The House has punted its promised transportation revenue debate until 2020, but lawmakers will hear testimony next week that could forecast how the legislation takes shape.

State to hold public hearings, including one in Worcester, to install federally mandated mile-based exit signs on the commonwealth’s major and limited access highways.

The bill, which mirrors laws in place in many other states, took years to come together after the state imposed a texting-while-driving ban that many have decried as unenforceable and ineffective.

Massachusetts voters support raising new revenue to make transportation investments, but a new poll shows they are divided over some of the key methods that lawmakers are weighing to generate funding.

Business group A Better City suggests Massachusetts leaders should commit to raising and spending $50 billion on transportation over the next two decades, all with new revenue from a range of transportation-specific sources like fees, tolls and taxes.

The former owner of Winchendon transportation company Rite Way has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined $4.2 million after pleading guilty to charges related to millions in Medicaid fraud, according to the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office.

Natick Center Station, one of the stops on the commuter rail line between Boston and Worcester, will stay open during a 30-month, $36 million overhaul.

The MBTA board voted Monday to back substantial investment in the commuter rail, calling for electrification of the system and more frequent service through the most dense corridors in a step that transportation advocates praised as historic.

Two elected officials and two transportation advocates who studied potential commuter rail changes endorsed a $28.9 billion plan on Monday to transform the system.