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After weeks of maintaining distance from Gov. Maura Healey’s handling of the state’s emergency shelter capacity crisis, the House is likely to approve a legislative directive that Healey establish a shelter overflow site — and the move is revealing...

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BOSTON — The governor plans Tuesday to sign an executive order that will address the process by which clean energy projects and infrastructure are permitted, an issue which utility companies and others have said could determine whether Massachusetts...

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With Massachusetts straining under an overburdened emergency shelter system and staring down a shortfall of workers, a group of more than 60 Bay State lawmakers is sending a letter urging the White House and Congress to work with haste to find a...

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BOSTON — Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien was suspended from her position Thursday by Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, who chose her for the job a year ago, as upheaval continues to collide with the CCC’s hefty regulatory and policy...

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More than 200 farms across western and central Massachusetts started receiving checks last week from the Massachusetts Farm Resiliency Fund launched by the Healey administration and United Way of Central Massachusetts after devastating flooding in...

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BOSTON — The road to the November 2024 ballot continues for the most closely watched initiative petitions, dealing with the role of the MCAS test as a graduation requirement, the rights and benefits for drivers on app-based platforms, rent control,...

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BOSTON — Massachusetts is aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 largely by electrifying things currently powered by fossil fuels. While the region’s electrical grid is not ready to serve that increased demand, the Bay State’s utility companies...

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State utility overseers on Friday ordered Eversource and National Grid to split two of the coldest (and often most costly) months of the year into two procurement and billing periods, implementing an idea that Maura Healey’s office proposed when she...

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BOSTON — Officials at the Massachusetts School Building Authority highlighted the resources and flexibility that the new state budget provided for it and its inflation-impacted projects, and said they’re in active conversation about what “even more...

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BOSTON—Federal pipeline overseers introduced new safety regulations for the more than 2.3 million miles of distribution lines that carry natural gas to and around communities last week, rolling out new rules that the U.S. Department of Transportation...

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BOSTON—Pressured to leave what was their homeland in Stockbridge as settlers moved west and divvied up land in the late 1700s, the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans was awarded more than $2 million from the state Wednesday to reclaim 351 acres of...

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BOSTON — The Legislature again rejected an attempt to allow the Massachusetts Lottery to sell its products online, but that doesn’t mean gamblers can’t order Lottery tickets online or on their phones.Courier services that take orders for and then buy...

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Five days into the new fiscal year, Massachusetts is one of six states without a full-year budget in place for fiscal 2024 and one of just three yet to have even put a finalized budget bill before the governor for review.Massachusetts, Michigan, North...

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BOSTON—Following years of a piecemeal approach to PFAS contamination and more than a year after a task force unanimously recommended 30 steps to deal with the problem, environmental groups, consumer advocates, firefighters and the attorney general’s...

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BOSTON — The population of Massachusetts shrunk by nearly 8,000 people between July 2021 and July 2022, a drop of about 0.1 percent, but the newest estimate released in fresh data from the U.S. Census Bureau puts the state’s population ahead of its...

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BOSTON — From fish being reeled in by anglers in Taunton to the drinking water at an elementary school in New Salem, so-called forever chemicals known as PFAS are everywhere, the questions and comments from lawmakers from various corners of...

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Bay Staters who get their electricity through National Grid’s basic service could see their monthly bill drop by more than $100 under a new rate that would take effect in May, but the cost of power will still be higher than last summer.The utility...

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A two-month slide in business confidence came to an end in February, but Bay State employers are largely in wait-and-see mode as they try to discern what track the economy will take in 2023, according to the latest readout from Associated Industries...

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BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey, who made gun laws a central part of her eight years as attorney general, said Thursday that so-called ghost guns should be banned and that she would support legislation to do that in Massachusetts.Untraceable ghost guns can...

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The budget that Gov. Maura Healey will file next week will boost the largest source of state education aid by almost 10% in what the administration said would be the biggest percentage increase since the last millennium.Local officials and then the...