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Officials with Massachusetts' tax collection agency say a data breach that exposed information from business taxpayers was twice as large as first thought.

Gov. Charlie Baker is proposing a 2.6 percent growth in state spending, filing a $40.905 billion budget for fiscal 2019 Wednesday that calls for changes at MassHealth and a tax on short-term housing rentals.

City residents can now utilize two BayCoast Bank Interactive Teller Machine (ITM) locations for certain payments, such as utility, real estate, personal property and excise taxes.

Following a forum that featured the three candidates for City Councilor of Ward One, the candidates for Mayor of New Bedford held one of their own at the Alfred J. Gomes Elementary School on Tuesday night.

The Massachusetts Legislature is once again on a wild spending spree with your credit card.

My friends in the government schools industrial complex will hate this. Those involved in parochial, private and home schooling get it. The government schools industrial complex have an unfair advantage. They get municipal, state and federal governments to tax the people outlandish fees to pay for a less than stellar service...

NEW BEDFORD- The final budget for the 2018 fiscal year proposed by the City of New Bedford saw its final cuts and was approved by City Council tonight after almost completely failing in the Council Chambers. City Council came to a total budget of $305,850,071 for the 2018 fiscal year after voting to cut funds from various city departments...

The Massachusetts Senate begins debate Tuesday on a proposed $40.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2018, and one state lawmaker thinks it's going to be lot harder than expected to maintain that type of a budget going forward if changes aren't made...

Relief is not likely for Massachusetts taxpayers as the Senate prepares to debate it's version of a $40 billion dollar budget for the next fiscal year on Tuesday.  The Senate seeks some $400 million dollars in new taxes and fees.   New revenue would come from private room rentals and perhaps new taxes on services...

NEW BEDFORD — Mayor Jon Mitchell presented the city council with his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018 Wednesday night at City Hall.