Maura Healey Wants To Spend Another $100 Million After Signing $63.4 Billion Budget
Less than a week after signing the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey filed a supplemental budget seeking another $100 million for Massachusetts public schools.
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Less than a week after signing the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey filed a supplemental budget seeking another $100 million for Massachusetts public schools.
Gov. Maura Healey called for an investigation after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man during an attempted vehicle stop in Biddeford, Maine.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will headline an Aug. 2 fundraiser in Provincetown supporting Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s reelection campaign.
Massachusetts' highest court ruled Anne Manning Martin cannot appear on the Republican primary ballot for lieutenant governor, leaving Shawn Oliver as the party's only candidate on the ballot.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell has proposed updated Massachusetts rules for fantasy sports contests as the line between fantasy games and sports betting grows less clear.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court kept Republican attorney general candidate Michael Walsh on the September primary ballot. Anne Manning Martin's appeal over the lieutenant governor race remains pending.
An Essex County Superior Court judge ruled Republican lieutenant governor candidate Anne Manning Martin cannot appear on the September primary ballot while restoring Republican attorney general candidate Michael Walsh to the ballot.
A strike involving 4,500 Brigham and Women's Hospital nurses and clinicians overshadowed Beacon Hill this week as Gov. Maura Healey failed to broker a deal while lawmakers debated social media, data privacy and healthcare bills.
A new objection claims some signatures for the Massachusetts marijuana repeal ballot question were not valid.
Gov. Maura Healey signed Massachusetts' $63.4 billion fiscal 2027 budget without making any vetoes. The spending plan increases spending by 3.9% and includes education, health care and local aid funding.
The Massachusetts House approved a five-year pilot program for psychedelic mental health treatment clinics as part of a larger economic development bill.
A coalition of Republican write-in candidates is organizing campaigns across Massachusetts while calling for legislative audits and election integrity measures.
Gov. Maura Healey and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined Democrats calling on Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner to quit after a new rape allegation.
Massachusetts senators will debate a youth social media bill that would restrict autoplay, infinite scroll and notifications for minors without banning teens from platforms.
Massachusetts posted a 12.5% SNAP payment error rate in fiscal 2025, above the national average and the federal threshold that could force the state to cover millions in food benefit costs.
Gov. Maura Healey will review and act on the $63.4 billion budget that lawmakers sent her last week, the first day of the new fiscal year the budget covers.
Massachusetts Republican lieutenant governor hopeful Anne Manning Martin is appealing the State Ballot Law Commission's decision that kicked her off the primary ballot over allegedly fraudulent signatures.
Michael Walsh wants the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a Massachusetts ruling that removed him from the Republican primary ballot.