Gov. Maura Healey said her budget office is ready to slash millions in legislative earmarks for local projects, and will seek the extraordinary power to cut spending across all state government.

Gov. Maura Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a proposal to empower her administration with greater ...

With the state facing a hazy fiscal future, Healey also asked lawmakers to give her the expanded power to cut across state ...

The Legislature this week agreed to use nearly $500 million in surtax revenue to deliver a major boost to K-12 school funding, a move that some see as fulfilling the voter-approved mission of the ...

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced this past week the league will expand to 18 teams with the additions/returns of ...

One influential small business industry group remains unhappy with a new mandatory retirement program the Legislature included in the state budget it passed Monday, slamming it as an ...

People came from near and far to watch the 51st Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on Friday night. Fireworks lit up the sky ...

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After the U.S. House vote to pass sprawling legislation that extends tax breaks and cuts social services spending in a nod to President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda, reaction poured ...

President Donald Trump signed his package of tax breaks and spending cuts into law Friday after his cajoling produced almost ...

Capt. Bill Heyn points at his boat’s depth monitor and then out at the Connecticut River as the craft moves along. Twelve feet of water. Ten feet. Six feet. Two feet, he reads off the screen. We’re ...

The state's fiscal 2026 budget calls for a commission to investigate crumbling home foundations owing to pyrrhotite and ...