BY ALISON KUZNITZ Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 22 of her counterparts filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, alleging the agency is...
BY ALISON KUZNITZ & SAM DRYSDALE OCT. 24, 2025…..With 1 million Bay Staters expected to lose public food assistance benefits next week due to the ongoing federal government shutdown,...
BY SAM DRYSDALE With enforcement of immigration laws surging in Massachusetts, a coalition of advocates rallied Wednesday and attached new urgency to the call for lawmakers...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG Gov. Maura Healey broke into the top 10 of Morning Consult’s quarterly ranking of the nation’s most popular governors this month, ascending...
BY SAM DRYSDALE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 15, 2025…..Nearly a year after voters approved a ballot measure to explicitly allow the state auditor to audit the...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG OCT. 13, 2025-BOSTON…….Some state benefit recipients are getting a boost thanks to an increase in the indicator used to determine weekly maximums...
BY SAM DRYSDALE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 8, 2025…..Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday issued a stern warning to participants in what she called “illegal street meetups,”...
BY MICHAEL NORTON The state can’t make up for all of the federal government spending cuts that are occurring, according to Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka, who...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG Tax collections missed the Healey administration’s mark last month but were up from a year earlier, an increase that state officials largely...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG & ALISON KUZNITZ SEPT. 30, 2025…..Three months into the fiscal year and two weeks out from a key deadline, state budget managers got...