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Erving convenience store sells winning $1M scratch ticket
06-12-2025 1:00 PM

ERVING — CST Nominee Trust of Greenfield has claimed a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “$4,000,000 Gold 50X” game with a scratch ticket purchased at Weatherheads Convenience Store on the French King Highway, which gets a $10,000 bonus for the sale.

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Draft FY26 budgets from House, Senate and governor include increased HIP funding
06-11-2025 3:10 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

More funding for the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP) may be on the way in fiscal year 2026, as Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed budget, along with those put forward by the Senate and House of Representatives, all request more money than in FY25.


Senate budget includes more than $1M in local earmarks for western Mass
06-10-2025 2:59 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

BOSTON — The state Senate’s approved fiscal year 2026 budget could bring more than $1 million in earmarks to western Massachusetts.


Health insurers seek steep rate increases
06-09-2025 3:16 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Hundreds of thousands of small business employees and individuals could face significantly higher health insurance premiums next year under proposed rate increases that critics warn would add another crushing weight to employers and residents already struggling to manage high costs.


Health coverage losses in Mass. may be even steeper
06-02-2025 11:46 AM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Tens of thousands of Bay Staters could lose subsidized health insurance through the Massachusetts Health Connector and premiums could rise for most other members under a suite of reforms in the U.S. House-approved reconciliation bill that Gov. Maura Healey dubbed “devastating.”


Top senator on elder affairs says service cuts coming as home care demands surge
06-01-2025 10:02 AM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Despite funding increases, the top senator on elder issues is raising a red flag about service cuts to programs that help keep seniors out of nursing homes.


Senate votes to let regulators cap some drug prices
05-28-2025 3:57 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The Senate agreed last week to add a major prescription drug price control measure to their fiscal year 2026 budget, drawing the ire of the influential life sciences sector and adding another major topic to House-Senate negotiations on the horizon.


Rising costs push small businesses to closure as they demand sweeping reforms from legislators
05-27-2025 8:15 AM

By GABRIEL O’HARA SALINI

Over 50% of small business owners said they were likely to close or sell their business in the next five years, citing high costs across their businesses as a driving factor, a recent study from UMass Donahue Institute showed.


Guard Chief: Constitution binds us ‘no matter how crazy things may get’
05-26-2025 8:34 PM

By ELLA ADAMS

BOSTON – To the tune of the 215th Army Band, families of Massachusetts veterans who lost their lives during or as a result of service gathered with state leaders last week in anticipation of Memorial Day and in recognition of their loved ones’ sacrifices.


Audit knocks use of no-bid contracts in family shelter crisis
05-25-2025 11:31 PM

By MICHAEL P. NORTON

No-bid emergency food and transportation service procurements followed a failure by state officials to assess and react to a spike in demand for shelter services, according audit results released Tuesday.


Advocates warn ‘walking wounded’ threatened by cuts
05-22-2025 7:00 AM

By ELLA ADAMS

Representing their experiences living through the child welfare system, a multi-generational ensemble of performers took center stage Wednesday at the State House as service providers and child welfare advocates called on the state to support key programs.


How Trump’s tariff proposals could hit Massachusetts’ biotech industry
05-21-2025 2:20 PM

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State board agrees on vocational school admissions reforms
05-20-2025 5:15 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

Career technical schools in Massachusetts will use a lottery system to admit students when there are more applicants than available seats, an approach that supporters say will ensure fairness and critics warn will water down education standards.


State plans to close all hotel, motel shelters this summer
05-20-2025 11:10 AM

By SAM DRYSDALE

The state will close its remaining motel and hotel shelters this summer, Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday, as the governor and lawmakers have imposed restrictions on the emergency housing system over the past year and family enrollment has declined.


State issues open call for new seal, flag and motto
05-16-2025 10:22 AM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — The state is soliciting proposals from artists, historians, designers, “culture bearers” and anyone else who has an idea for a new Massachusetts state seal, flag and motto.


MassHealth warns of big coverage, funding losses under GOP plans
05-16-2025 10:21 AM

By CHRIS LISINKSI

BOSTON — A key piece of a federal spending cut and tax relief plan that’s on the move in Washington could result in Massachusetts losing more than $1 billion annually and hundreds of thousands of Bay Staters losing health coverage, according to the Healey administration.


Healey energy bill sets stage for reintroduction of nuclear
05-15-2025 9:47 AM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is proposing to repeal a law put in place by voters as part of a worldwide nuclear freeze movement, a bid to open the door to greater deployment of newer nuclear energy facilities as part of a push to save ratepayers $10 billion over a decade.


Cannabis competitor flowering in convenience stores
05-14-2025 11:54 AM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — One representative called it a “wonderful, reefer-smelling bag” and another worried a drug-sniffing dog might alert to him at the airport later as he passed the bundle of products down the Cannabis Policy Committee dais.


Cities, towns urge state to release grip on alcohol licenses
05-13-2025 2:00 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Municipal leaders clamoring for greater authority over the number of alcohol licenses available in their cities and towns once again urged lawmakers Monday to adopt reforms previously embraced by top Beacon Hill Democrats.


Nonprofits agree they are worse off under Trump
05-11-2025 12:00 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Hundreds of workers and leaders at nonprofits across Massachusetts overwhelmingly agreed that the Bay State will fare worse under the Trump administration, voicing concerns about funding cuts and heightened stress on vulnerable populations.


Trump forcing Mass. to reassess emissions mandates
05-05-2025 12:26 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — The House chairman of a key committee said that policymakers are reevaluating all of Massachusetts’ climate and emissions mandates, plans and goals in light of changes in federal energy policy, cracking open the door to the possibility of changes to the state’s commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

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