Massachusetts Approves Huge 10.4% Health Insurance Premium Increase for Next Year
Nearly 700,000 Massachusetts residents and small-business workers will face an average 10.4% health insurance premium increase in 2027.
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Nearly 700,000 Massachusetts residents and small-business workers will face an average 10.4% health insurance premium increase in 2027.
The Massachusetts House voted 119-33 to allow abortions after 24 weeks for any reason an abortionist approves under their professional judgment.
Massachusetts voters will decide whether to repeal the state's recreational marijuana law after the State Ballot Law Commission rejected a signature challenge and ordered the initiative onto the November ballot.
Massachusetts House Democrats advanced a bill that would eliminate the state’s existing limits on abortions performed after 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Phil Eng has led both the MBTA and MassDOT for nine months, but the Healey administration will not say whether it is searching for a permanent transportation secretary.
Colonel Geoffrey Noble says the Massachusetts State Police has a misconduct proliferation problem but rejects claims of a broader culture problem.
They/them candidate Evan MacKay challenged state Rep. Marjorie Decker during a heated Cambridge Democratic primary debate.
There will be "no debate" between the Republicans running in the Sept. 1 gubernatorial primary, candidate Mike Minogue declared Thursday on the radio.
Gov. Maura Healey defended the state's decision to award a $1.6 billion Springfield courthouse lease to a development team tied to Rep. Ayanna Pressley's husband despite a lawsuit challenging the procurement.
Less than a week after signing the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey filed a supplemental budget seeking another $100 million for Massachusetts public schools.
Gov. Maura Healey called for an investigation after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian man during an attempted vehicle stop in Biddeford, Maine.
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will headline an Aug. 2 fundraiser in Provincetown supporting Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s reelection campaign.
Massachusetts' highest court ruled Anne Manning Martin cannot appear on the Republican primary ballot for lieutenant governor, leaving Shawn Oliver as the party's only candidate on the ballot.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell has proposed updated Massachusetts rules for fantasy sports contests as the line between fantasy games and sports betting grows less clear.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court kept Republican attorney general candidate Michael Walsh on the September primary ballot. Anne Manning Martin's appeal over the lieutenant governor race remains pending.
An Essex County Superior Court judge ruled Republican lieutenant governor candidate Anne Manning Martin cannot appear on the September primary ballot while restoring Republican attorney general candidate Michael Walsh to the ballot.
A strike involving 4,500 Brigham and Women's Hospital nurses and clinicians overshadowed Beacon Hill this week as Gov. Maura Healey failed to broker a deal while lawmakers debated social media, data privacy and healthcare bills.
A new objection claims some signatures for the Massachusetts marijuana repeal ballot question were not valid.