Gov. Maura Healey signed a $5 billion redraft of the housing bond bill into law this week. State House leaders say it’s “the largest housing investment” in Massachusetts history and “a powerful first step” toward tackling the state's housing affordability crisis.

The Department of Energy will help fund upgrades at two electrical substations and a multi-day battery storage project.

Gov. Healey signed the bill into law last week.

The new trail is meant to spark business for local dairy farmers and ice cream shops.

The closing down of the men's prison is due in part to a steep drop in the number of people incarcerated in the state over the past decade. Gov. Maura Healey said the state envisions an "economic development project" that would transform the MCI-Concord site, at least partially, into housing.

Massachusetts will offer free community college tuition to all state residents as part of its proposed fiscal 2025 budget.

The federal funding money will help cover several critical elements of the East-West rail project designed to expand passenger rail service between the western part of the state and Boston.

Mass. Senate will vote on a health care oversight reform bill inspired by Steward Health Care woes.

A bill to halt the construction of new prisons and jails provides a way forward for decarceration.

The Massachusetts Restaurant Association filed an objection to several signatures and petition sheets that were submitted by the ballot campaign, One Fair Wage, to the secretary of state. The signatures were the final hurdle ballot organizers had to clear to get the issue in front of voters in November.