The insurance challenge for coastal states like Massachusetts has been a vexing one. Inflation and tariffs are scrambling ...

The results conclude a nail-biting primary race for the Suffolk and Middlesex District, which became a proxy war over voter ...

The unfolding legal drama marks a major pivot point for a project intended to provide 20 percent of Massachusetts’s electricity — and exposes just how fragile and volatile the state’s energy mix ...

Newly filed financial reports shed light on this election’s battle lines, which will pit business groups against unions, the marijuana industry against an out-of-state opponent, and transparency ...

We are asking more of our students than ever before. Now we need to build the pipeline of teachers who can get them there.

The results of this week's recount will settle who wins the district – a longtime incumbent and the third-most powerful ...

Healey can cast the utility companies as a critical partner when it’s advantageous for her to do so — or turn them into a political punching bag and convenient foil when it benefits her.

EARLIER THIS YEAR, Governor Healey's Anti-Hunger Task Force released its final report. I read it closely. Much of it is right, fortunately, since 40 ...

EARLIER THIS YEAR, Governor Healey’s Anti-Hunger Task Force released its final report. I read it closely. Much of it is right, fortunately, since 40 percent of households in Massachusetts are […] ...

The guardrails, which include expectations for securing tax breaks, stipulate that new data centers should directly procure ...

EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS are always memorable on Beacon Hill, with a flurry of activity to get bills over the legislative finish line. As I write this, conference committees are working to deliver major ...

This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Hallie Claflin talks with Alecia McGregor, assistant professor of ...