Massachusetts

  The Trump administration is moving to reopen federal approval for a major offshore wind project off Massachusetts, escalating its effort to reconsider renewable energy developments approved under former President Joe Biden. The Justice Department asked a federal judge to return the New England Wind project’s construction and operations permit to the Interior Department for […]

State police across six Northeast states are stepping up traffic enforcement this week, targeting speeding, distracted driving and impaired motorists in a coordinated three-day operation. The initiative, dubbed Operation Wicked Safe, brings together police agencies in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island. The enforcement campaign runs Tuesday through Thursday, with officers […]

The Trump administration has launched a sweeping investigation into how some of the nation’s most prominent universities use foreign researchers, serving subpoenas to institutions across the Northeast as federal officials examine potential abuse of visa programs and the use of taxpayer-funded research dollars. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General announced October 9 […]

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey faced repeated challenges over affordability, government spending and her record Thursday as Republican challenger Mike Minogue used their first gubernatorial debate to attack a controversial $2 billion Springfield courthouse deal and accuse Democrats of making the state increasingly unaffordable. Healey, meanwhile, repeatedly tried to tie Minogue to President Donald Trump, turning […]

Gov. Maura Healey is asking the Trump administration to help bring more natural gas into Massachusetts, less than five weeks before voters decide whether she gets a second term. Healey sent a letter Thursday to Energy Secretary Chris Wright urging federal agencies to move without delay on the Algonquin pipeline expansion known as Project RARE. […]

Republican Mike Minogue has posted his strongest showing yet against Gov. Maura Healey, trimming her lead to 16 points in a new University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll just over a month before Election Day. The Boston Herald reported that Healey remains favored, while UNH polled likely voters at 54% to 38%. The New Boston […]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents returned to the New Bedford area for a second straight day Tuesday, pushing the two-day arrest total past a dozen and prompting Gov. Maura Healey to join Mayor Jon Mitchell in publicly demanding the administration explain itself. Agents made at least eight arrests Monday in an operation centered on […]

Senator Ed Markey didn’t just survive Tuesday’s primary; he ran away with it. The four-term senator crushed Rep. Seth Moulton in Tuesday’s Democratic Senate primary, pulling in roughly 65 percent of the vote with just over half of ballots counted when the Associated Press called the race. Moulton, 47, had staked his entire campaign on […]

Massachusetts State Rep. Francisco Paulino, D-Methuen, was arrested Wednesday and taken into federal custody after a grand jury indicted him on 11 charges stemming from an alleged pandemic-era benefits scheme. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Massachusetts and FBI Boston announced the indictment, which includes eight counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary […]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) threw her support behind Sen. Ed Markey on Thursday, injecting progressive star power into a Massachusetts Senate primary he now leads by nearly 30 points, hours before the candidates' final debate. Ocasio-Cortez cited her legislative "partnership on the Green New Deal" with Markey in a statement from his campaign, backing the […]

Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation Monday stripping away Massachusetts' 24-week gestational limit on abortion, making the state one of ten in the country with no cutoff on how late in pregnancy the procedure can be performed. The "Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act" replaces the state's previous statute which required a threat to the mother's […]