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Healey wants shelter law shakeup, seeks changes to Right to Shelter Law, stronger criminal background checks
01-16-2025 1:50 PM

By SAM DORAN

BOSTON — With the state’s family shelter system under pressure from mounting costs and violent on-site incidents, Gov. Maura Healey is recommending statutory changes to the decades-old Right to Shelter Law, asking House and Senate leadership to fold the reforms into a supplemental budget.

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Judge dismisses final right-to-repair law challenges
02-12-2025 2:14 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON – A federal judge on Tuesday tossed the remainder of a legal challenge automakers brought against a motor vehicle repair law Massachusetts voters approved more than four years ago.


By-right accessory dwellings now allowed in communities statewide
02-04-2025 5:02 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Accessory dwelling units are now allowed by right in single-family zoning districts across most of Massachusetts, under a law Gov. Maura Healey signed in August. The rule went into effect on Sunday.


Union: Faculty pay not keeping up with community college enrollment
01-19-2025 3:38 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – As enrollment at community colleges booms under the state’s new free tuition program, the faculty that teach and support the burgeoning population are asking for their first wage equity adjustment in 25 years.


Healey targets primary care reforms, new graduation requirements in annual speech
01-17-2025 10:05 AM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Drawing from Massachusetts history while also peeking into the future, Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday night took stock of the state’s strengths and challenges in a speech that focused more on following through on past work than on announcing new initiatives.


Ed secretary pledges gender identity protections
01-15-2025 4:23 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – The state’s top education official pledged Tuesday that Massachusetts schools would protect transgender students, even after a federal judge scrapped President Joe Biden’s expanded Title IX protections of LGBTQ students last week.


New Massachusetts license plate will spread overdose awareness message
01-13-2025 4:23 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON – The opioid epidemic has affected tens of thousands of people across Massachusetts, and later this year, vehicles on the state’s roadways will be able to offer reminders that survivors and grieving families are all around us.


Critical drought tag dropped for region
01-08-2025 4:55 PM

By MICHAEL P. NORTON

BOSTON – Drought conditions are no longer considered “critical” in the Pioneer Valley and two other regions of Massachusetts, following designation adjustments made in the wake of what state officials described as “several weeks of snow and rain.”


Records request will test top Dems on legislative audit
01-07-2025 11:01 AM

By ALISON KUZNITZ and SAM DORAN

BOSTON — The three-day countdown for Beacon Hill lawmakers to comply with Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s probe of the Legislature started Monday afternoon, DiZoglio said, with her office now requesting specific records from the House and Senate.Meantime,...


State legislators wrap up session, sending flurry of bills to governor
01-01-2025 12:24 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Top Democrats needed a few extra months to reach agreements on major laws this session, but wrapped up business for the term with almost a day to spare and New Year’s Eve plans intact.The House and Senate adjourned their last meetings of the...


Report details mail-in voting postage, printing costs
12-30-2024 7:56 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

Just less than half of the roughly 3.5 million voters who cast a ballot in November’s elections here did so in person on Election Day, Secretary of State William Galvin’s office said in a new report on the roughly $8 million costs associated with the...


Report tracks trends in Massachusetts births
12-30-2024 11:29 AM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Fewer people who gave birth in 2022 received adequate prenatal care compared to the prior year, and more Massachusetts residents used fertility treatment, according to a new report from the Department of Public Health.DPH’s look-back into the 68,579...


Gov. Healey takes stock midway through term
12-26-2024 4:37 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG and SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — At the midway point of her term in office, Gov. Maura Healey said last week she’s comfortable with what she’s gotten done and is more focused on implementing what she sees as “transformational” accomplishments than on pondering her next...


Home care providers see statewide crisis on horizon as demand outruns funding
12-05-2024 6:41 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Thousands of older Bay Staters could lose access to home care services this spring or see support scaled back due to looming funding shortfalls totaling millions of dollars, elder advocates and providers say.Elder services organizations are urging...


DiZoglio, advocates plan legislative audit newsmaker
12-03-2024 4:11 PM

By SAM DORAN

BOSTON — Auditor Diana DiZoglio plans to hold a press conference Wednesday marking a month since her legislative audit ballot question cruised to victory. But the victorious Question 1 will be staying on ice for at least another month.The Methuen...


AG waiting to weigh in on audit of Legislature
12-01-2024 11:01 AM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell plans to stay on the sidelines in the donnybrook between Auditor Diana DiZoglio and the Legislature, at least until the two sides wind up in a “legal dispute” if DiZoglio seeks to exercise her new auditing...


Markey predicts RFK Jr. hearing will spark ‘uproar’
11-27-2024 10:40 AM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, joined by a cohort of Massachusetts health leaders, declared Tuesday he will vote against confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, saying Americans need a leader...


Bill would gradually phase out tobacco products in Massachusetts
11-27-2024 10:06 AM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — Tobacco and nicotine products would eventually become banned in Massachusetts, under a regulatory trajectory that a trio of lawmakers hope will become law next session.Sen. Jason Lewis and Reps. Tommy Vitolo and Kate Lipper-Garabedian...


State’s top officials worried about health care access, funding
11-17-2024 2:19 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell, readying her office and Massachusetts for potential threats posed by Donald Trump’s win, told health regulators last Thursday she’s concerned about preserving access to reproductive and gender-affirming...


Clean energy bill heads to governor
11-15-2024 3:36 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — After months of delay, the Legislature sent a major clean energy bill to Gov. Maura Healey’s desk amid shifting national energy policy dynamics.The House voted 125-17 to approve the 139-page House-Senate compromise bill (S 2967), and both...


Brush fire risk remains high in state, region until rain, frost arrives
11-13-2024 3:04 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Bay Staters should conserve water and avoid burning anything outdoors amid an “unprecedented” wildfire season that likely will not abate until significant rain — or seasonal frost — arrives, state and local fire officials said this...

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