By Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE, BOSTON…..After almost a year of studying how “forever chemicals” touch nearly all aspects of life in Massachusetts, the PFAS Interagency...
By Chris Lisinski If the world wants to rein in greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the most disastrous effects of the climate crisis, its success...
Sam Doran William Allen, the second in a pair of commutations backed by Gov. Charlie Baker earlier this year, got the green light from the Parole...
Colin A. Young Sales of both single-family houses and condominiums in Massachusetts declined in March as housing prices rose even further, continuing a pattern that real...
Chris Lisinski Massachusetts businesses added 21,000 jobs in March, inching the Bay State closer to pre-pandemic employment levels while the unemployment rate remained above the national...
By Chris Lisinski Tuition across all University of Massachusetts campuses will increase this fall for the first time in three years, ending a pandemic-era freeze as...
By Chris Van Buskirk and Sam Doran Leonard Alkins, a longtime face of the NAACP Boston Branch with a four-decade career in the Legislature, died of...
Michael P. Norton Gov. Charlie Baker has signed legislation clearing the way for adults to adopt their siblings and younger aunts or uncles, a bill that...
By Chris Lisinski BOSTON – Transportation, energy and the construction fields feature as primary focus areas in a bill Senate Democrats rolled out Thursday to accelerate...
By Chris Lisinski In the first year after elected officials allowed a statewide moratorium on evictions to lapse, tenants in neighborhoods where a majority of residents...