By Katie Lannan The state’s steps to combat the overdose epidemic include funding for 38 syringe service programs, 33 overdose education and naloxone-distribution sites and plans...
By Colin A. Young State House News Service DEC. 7, 2021…..Ever since the state’s Office of the Child Advocate reported that the Department of Children and...
Katie Lannan/SHNS Two days after the first case of the new Omicron COVID-19 variant was officially confirmed in Massachusetts, the head of the state’s largest hospital...
By Chris Lisinski State House News Service Lawmakers have just a month left to overcome a disagreement about how to update an animal welfare law before...
By Matt Murphy and Sam Doran Democrats in the U.S. Senate took a major step forward toward confirmation of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to...
Katie Lannan A Fall River Democrat vying to unseat long-serving Bristol Sheriff Thomas Hodgson got a hand from some state lawmakers this week as he raised...
By Matt Murphy House and Senate leaders said Tuesday night that they had struck a deal to spend $4 billion in American Rescue Plan Act and...
By Matt Murphy State House News Service STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 1, 2021…..Gov. Charlie Baker, a two-term Republican who at his peak was one of the...
Chris Lisinski/SHNS A day after Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts may “soon” deploy a digital COVID-19 vaccine passport similar to those in use in other states,...
Sam Doran SHNS Before gaveling out for a long Thanksgiving weekend, the Senate sent Gov. Charlie Baker bills affecting affordable housing in Ipswich, the Woburn Public...
