Governor Maura Healey’s budget proposal includes major cuts to health and social service programs, including two residential ...

A top House Democrat demanded Gov. Maura Healey’s administration cough up more information about the state-run emergency ...

Gov. Maura Healey slipped a series of tax increases into her fiscal year 2026 budget like applying the sales tax to candy, slapping the tobacco tax on synthetic nicotine produces, imposing an ...

Officials from Boston, Cambridge, and elsewhere have for years sought the ability to use automated cameras for traffic enforcement, arguing it could lessen the burden on local law enforcement and help ...

Gov. Maura Healey outlined Massachusetts’ Fiscal Year 2026 state budget. Coverage for the center was not included. The transition out could begin as soon as this Fall.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – We are hearing from locals after governor Maura Healey announced a proposal to tax candy. When you buy soda, pre-packaged meals, or cigarettes, you pay a small tax to the ...

If President Donald Trump puts a 25% tariff on products coming from Canada starting next weekend, as he said this week he is considering, electricity<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Federal immigration agents were seen Wednesday taking a man into custody in Chelsea, Massachusetts, as well as making other arrests in East Boston.

Gov. Maura Healey plans to close a mental health center in Cape Cod, in addition to shuttering a state-run pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Canton.

Trump’s threatened tariffs on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese goods would be “terrible for the Massachusetts economy," Gov. Maura Healey said.

The governor estimates that eliminating the sales tax exemption on candy could raise $25 million. Right now, Massachusetts is one of 11 states that exempt candy from the sales tax. WBZ-TV reached out ...