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Government & Politics
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Millionaire tax question passes as remaining ballot questions called
November 10, 2022In some of the closest statewide races this election season, the final results for all but one of Massachusetts' four ballot questions rolled in at a nail-biting pace the day after Election Day.
November 10, 2022
Fallon, Reliant, UMass Memorial tapped for MassHealth ACOs
November 9, 2022Worcester healthcare providers UMass Memorial Health and Reliant Medical Group, along with insurer Fallon Health, have been selected to four of the 17 MassHealth accountable care organizations.
November 9, 2022-
Ballot questions on millionaire's tax and driver's licenses too close to call
November 9, 2022Hot-button ballot questions related to taxes and immigration policy in Massachusetts were still too close to call late Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning.
November 9, 2022 
Worcester voters approve Community Preservation Act
November 9, 2022In Tuesday’s election, Worcester voters approved the Community Preservation Act 18,976 to 17,426, according to unofficial results posted at 10:35 p.m. by the City of Worcester.
November 9, 2022
Healey turns governor's office blue in historic win
November 9, 2022Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly chose Democrat Maura Healey as the next governor of Massachusetts, entrusting the two-term attorney general whose election marks a litany of historic firsts to succeed popular Republican Gov. Charlie Baker as the
November 9, 2022
Utilities balk at renegotiating offshore wind contract
November 7, 2022Massachusetts is relying on offshore wind power generation to be a major contributor to its decarbonization goals over the next three decades but it is taking longer than first thought to get turbines spinning and now the largest project in the
November 7, 2022
Labor crunch, payment models disrupting health care
November 7, 2022The Massachusetts health care system withstood the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, but widespread staffing shortages and an outdated, reactionary payment model that fails to prevent illnesses linger as major challenges that need to be addressed,
November 7, 2022-
House, Senate spend surplus after cutting tax relief
November 4, 2022Lawmakers sent a large and long-overdue closeout budget and economic development bill to Gov. Charlie Baker's desk Thursday, winning support for the scaled-down measure from Republicans who agreed to the new spending while lamenting the death of tax
November 4, 2022 
Boxborough buys 23 acres for conservation
November 3, 2022The Town of Boxborough, working with the Sudbury Valley Trustees and the Boxborough Conservation Trust, purchased 95 & 105 Sargent Road in Boxborough, for $1.25 million.
November 3, 2022
WHA to redevelop Lakeside Apartments into 250+ low-income and affordable units
November 3, 2022The Worcester Housing Authority plans to demolish and replace Lakeside Apartments with up-to-date structures offering more units for current residents and people on the WHA waitlist.
November 3, 2022
Worcester urges indoor masking, other precautions amid RSV, flu, COVID
November 2, 2022The City of Worcester recommends residents take precautions amid an unusually high nationwide outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV.
November 2, 2022
Bill changing rules on insurance-preferred prescribing practices signed into law
November 2, 2022Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday signed a bill to restrict the practice in which some patients are made to try and fail on insurance-preferred treatments before their insurer will approve a more expensive option prescribed by a doctor.
November 2, 2022
Galvin renews call for $50M heating aid reserve
November 2, 2022Whenever lawmakers get around to considering a closeout budget bill, Secretary of State William Galvin wants them to bulk it up with $50 million more to help Bay Staters heat their homes this winter.
November 2, 2022
Poftak resigning in January from MBTA’s top post
November 2, 2022MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak will step down from the transit agency's top post in January, ending a four-year tenure dotted with a handful of major accomplishments as well as harrowing failures.
November 2, 2022
WPI, RPI receive $1.8M to help nonprofits find workers, resources
November 1, 2022The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.8 million over four years to a team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York to develop a platform for nonprofits to share resources.
November 1, 2022
Dunkin franchisee to pay $145K over child labor violations at Central Mass. locations
October 31, 2022The management company that owns 21 Dunkin locations across Central Massachsuetts has agreed to pay more than $145,000 for child labor violations at the locations, resolving more than 1,200 allegations.
October 31, 2022
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