Maura Healey

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 […]

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 […]