Top Senate Democrats are on board with many of the changes to the overburdened family shelter system that the House included ...

Staffers at Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children are calling on Maura Healey to visit their Canton facility after the ...

A $425 million bill would keep the state's emergency shelter system afloat while imposing a new cap on the number of families ...

Maura Healey on Wednesday recommended statutory changes ... "Which the Legislature's happy to do," he added. Republican lawmakers this week called for more system transparency and accountability ...

State will pay $2.034B to the federal government from the employer-funded unemployment insurance trust fund and $73M in ...

Pappas currently has 36 patients, according to the Department of Public Health. Patients range from age 7 to 22. One of them ...

The $425 million supplemental budget would strike a current provision that allows families to stay in shelters as officials determine whether they’re actually eligible applicants. It calls for cutting ...

A Massachusetts mayor called on New Hampshire’s governor for help Monday, especially with a deadly version of the opioid fentanyl laced with a tranquilizer, xylazine, that leaves users stunned like ...

Areas outside the surtax-funded transportation and education worlds are due for smaller growth or, in some cases, trimming. Excluding surtax and MATF dollars from both bills, Healey's fiscal 2026 ...