State House News Service

The bill passed 30-7 with opposition from both sides of the aisle.

The FY2021 budget also recommends higher charter school reimbursements - welcome news for many public school districts.

The state health department has reported 10 new cases of vaping-related illness as health officials remain unable to pinpoint the exact cause of the outbreak.

When it comes to one controversial bill, known as the ROE Act, Moultrie says he would not have signed his name in support of it as Mayor Mitchell did last week.

The governors of five East Coast states are urging federal regulators not to put any additional roadblocks in the way of the country's offshore wind industry.

The average price dropped four cents from last week and matches the national average, which dropped seven pennies in the last seven days

With the annual state budget now 16 days late and negotiatons are still unresolved, House Speaker Robert DeLeo indicated a compromise may not be reached this month.

The Legislature's Transportation Committee is calling for "a public examination of management, notice and record-keeping issues."

State officials overseeing the medical and recreational marijuana industries have released rewritten rules regarding marijuana vaping lounges and home delivery.

Tax receipts for the month of December missed the monthly benchmark by more than half-a-billion dollars, erasing months of above-benchmark collections in Massachusetts.