Roads, bridges, public transit and more infrastructure would get millions for improvements.
"I don’t understand why you’re in such a big hurry for me to make a decision about this," the two-term MA governor said this week.
More than 5 percent of the roughly 42,000 active workers subject to the requirement are in a state of flux.
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Massachusetts legislators want to overhaul the system that lets law enforcement keep people's money.
An even bigger majority of respondents to a Patch survey support the state's decision to require masks in Massachusetts schools this fall.
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Speaking in a radio interview, Attorney General Maura Healey backed Gov. Charlie Baker's coronavirus vaccine requirement for state workers.
With new CDC guidelines for areas with surging COVID-19 cases — including parts of the Bay State — is it time for a new mask mandate?
Gov. Baker reiterated this week that communities and school districts must determine their own indoor mask and back-to-school protocols.
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New state guidance "strongly recommends" students grade 6 or younger wear masks in school, but districts are free to make their own rules.
Attorney General Maura Healey claims Grubhub charged fees to restaurants that exceeded Massachusetts' 15 percent fee cap.
Gov. Charlie Baker: "Massachusetts is in a much better position than the vast majority of states in this country (with COVID)."
The plan would have cost the state an estimated $900 million. For now, shoppers will have to settle for the sales tax weekend on Aug. 14-15.
While some local school boards in Massachusetts have banned the mascots, the new law would ban their use across the state.
In addition to the 71 people who have died from "breakthrough cases," there have been 268 hospitalizations of fully vaccinated people.
Gov. Charlie Baker has named Kimberly Roy as the gubernatorial appointee to the Cannabis Control Commission on Monday.
State lawmakers are in a food fight over how to implement a law aimed at improving conditions for hens that voters approved in 2016.
Proponents cited restrictive housing policies prevented Black families from purchasing homes in desirable parts of town.
Massachusetts collected more tax revenue than expected during the pandemic, and its rainy day fund is flush.
Payments, which are part of the American Rescue Plan, will start going out to 39 million U.S. households on July 15.
The coronavirus state of emergency will end Tuesday after 16 months. But lawmakers are trying to keep some pieces in place.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Healey discusses her prosecution of the Sackler family, who own Connecticut-based Purdue Pharma.
Maura Healey has not taken action on evidence of illegal campaign finance activity by 13 people sent to her in her six years in office.
With most statewide coronavirus-related restrictions to expire, businesses are largely charged with determining their own protocols.
Immigrants held at the Massachusetts jail complained about a lack of COVID-19 precautions, overcrowding and excessive use of force.
The tax credit is set to expire this year, and the state House and Senate are clashing on how — or even if — it should be extended.
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Baker said despite some sharp disagreements he remains a Republican and is a "big believer in what the party fundamentally stands for."
Gov. Charlie Baker said the state will begin offering the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to 12- to 15-year-olds after it received CDC approval.
Outdoor road races and indoor singing are back as the state moves to the next phase of reopening in the coronavirus pandemic.
The “#MeToo” movement brought sweeping changes nationwide, including in Massachusetts, on how allegations of sexual misconduct are handled.
Historians say the monuments to Hannah Duston obscure a grim truth: most of the Indigenous people she killed were children, not warriors.
The number of seats in the House of Representatives remained the same in all six New England states.