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Thursday's action included three bills newly advanced by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Gov. Maura Healey has signed the addiction and substance use disorder bill that expands access to overdose reversal drugs, establishes licensure for recovery coaches, and limits legal liability for drug users and harm reduction workers who use drug-…
Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order aimed at boosting women's employment in the construction industry, and she celebrated the effort with what could be one of her final public collaborations with the Biden administration.
Central Massachusetts’ unemployment rates continued their upward trajectory in November for the second consecutive month after the region had begun to rebound from its year-long high in July.
Holliston Town Administrator Travis Ahern has agreed to bring his experience in municipal government to the Cannabis Control Commission next year as its new executive director during a time of significant changes in the maturing industry, the agency…
Adult hospital readmission rates in Central Massachusetts came in just below the state’s average in 2023.
Three Central Massachusetts universities have been awarded a share of $14 million in state funding to boost graduation rates for historically underserved students.
In December 2023, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 bold predictions for news events to happen in Central Massachusetts throughout the year. Turns out, we missed the mark on all but two.
Every December for this Economic Forecast special edition, the journalists in the WBJ newsroom forecast 10 possible news events for the coming year, based on their expertise and the trends in the Central Massachusetts business community.
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts continued to rise in November for the second month in a row, yet still remained lower than the national average.
More Americans have pets than ever before. As of 2024, 86.9 million homes, or 66% of U.S. households, owned a pet, up from 56% in 1988, according to Forbes. The vast majority of those households — 65.1 million — were homes to dogs. Still, 46.5 million households in the U.S. had a cat, making them the second-most popular pet in the country, followed by fish, birds, and then small animals like hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, and guinea pigs.
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