A U.S. Senate committee voted Thursday to hold Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre in civil and criminal contempt after he refused to testify publicly about his company’s bankruptcy.

There are financial problems on the horizon that are threatening to undo all that progress and send the T spiraling, unless state officials can agree on some potentially expensive solutions.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles announced yesterday that rather than ordering cute litlte Japanese kei trucks and cars off the road, it will let them continue to putter around the Commonwealth. Read more.

Migration patterns and competitiveness have become key topics on Beacon Hill, fueled by the sky-high costs of housing and child care pressuring many residents. But just how many people are leaving Boston and data on who is moving is unclear.

Massachusetts is looking to improve air quality levels in cities and towns across the state through funded program.

The Boston Transportation Department reports the dedicated bus/truck lanes on Summer Street in South Boston failed and so it's going to eliminate them and return the road to its basic configuration of two general travel lanes in each direction. Read more.

Boston City Councilors ordered up a hearing today at which to press Boston school officials to explain how the new BPS Zum (pronounced "zoom," but for obvious reasons not spelled that way) app that was supposed to make BPS buses run as softly as a cloud instead led to some buses not showing up in the morning for an hour or more - and some kids riding buses home for up to three hours as their poor, befuddled drivers tried to navigate Boston's dropped-bowl-of-spaghetti roads. Read more.

At the hearing, nurses testified about poor staffing impacting patient care at Steward hospitals.

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