By Colin A. Young.
While National Guard members from three states head to Washington, D.C. to patrol the capital under the command of President Trump, lawmakers in Massachusetts have advanced a bill to realign the guard’s chain of command here in a way they say would reflect the organization’s evolving mission.
By Chris Lisinski.
Nine years after pulling the plug on a prior weekend late-night service program, the MBTA this month will begin running all subways and several popular bus routes about an hour longer into the night.
By Chris Lisinski.
Two months after bar advocates stopped taking new cases to demand pay raises, legislative leaders last week rolled out a take-it-or-leave-it proposal that some dissatisfied attorneys quickly slammed as insufficient.
Lawmakers on Wednesday announced a deal to increase pay for attorneys who represent indigent defendants, but at a lower level than bar advocates have been demanding since they stopped taking new cases two months ago.
The head of the MBTA is “very confident” the Chinese manufacturer building new Red and Orange Line trains will be able to fulfill federal requests for information that have reportedly delayed delivery of new cars to the United States.
Bar advocates said Monday they have not been involved in any conversations with legislative leadership about a resolution to the labor crisis that has resulted in more than 100 court cases being dismissed.
Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday called for striking attorneys to get back to work while they continue to push for greater pay, and did not take a stance on whether their pay should be raised.
Travel through Boston by air and by sea surged to new heights over the past 12 months, setting a pair of new records at facilities overseen by the Massachusetts Port Authority.
The Caribbean community in Massachusetts will stand tall in the midst of “the callousness and the aggression” aimed at them by the federal administration, a former longtime Boston lawmaker told a crowd at the State House on Thursday.
Nicole LaChapelle, the mayor of Easthampton since 2018 and a participant in various Healey administration initiatives in recent years, will replace Brian Arrigo as the new head of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
After a more than two-year tenure in which she charted the state’s path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh will step down and hand the reins over to Undersecretary Kiame Mahaniah.
Flanked by health care leaders of color on the State House steps, Sen. Liz Miranda framed her health equity reform omnibus legislation Tuesday as the “only beautiful bill that exists” and as an antidote to the federal megalaw that is expected to cause Medicaid upheaval.
The plea to get a women’s professional basketball team to Boston is cementing its roots deep within the State House with major assists from Dorchester’s Worrell brothers.
On the same day that Donald Trump signed a landmark domestic policy bill that will reshape national and state finances for years to come, Gov. Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a companion proposal designed to empower her administration with greater cost-cutting power.
Calling for local sports fans and investors to target the Connecticut Sun, a Boston City Council member says his “very excited” colleagues will “absolutely” approve his resolution Wednesday to support the presence of a professional women’s basketball team in Boston.
