Members of a Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Texas-based Steward Health Care have adopted two resolutions designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt for not testifying before the panel
September 19, 2024
Members of a Senate committee looking into the Steward Health Care bankruptcy said they plan to vote next week to adopt two resolutions to hold Steward CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt after he refused to attend a hearing Thursday despite being issued a subpoena
September 12, 2024
Massachusetts health officials have announced a second confirmed case of the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus in the state
August 29, 2024
A conservative law firm is suing Massachusetts Gov_ Maura Healey over an initiative the state launched earlier this summer targeting “crisis pregnancy centers” that Healey calls strictly “anti-abortion.”
August 29, 2024
Massachusetts gun rights activists are vowing to pursue repealing a gun bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Maura Healey
August 22, 2024
Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seeking to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over Tsarnaev’s death sentence
August 21, 2024
Gov. Maura Healey says she is pressing Steward Health Care to adhere to a state Department of Public Health regulation that hospital owners must give 120 days notice before any medical facility can close in Massachusetts
August 01, 2024
Steward Health Care announced Friday that is it closing two hospitals in Massachusetts because it received no qualified bids for the facilities after declaring bankruptcy earlier this year
July 26, 2024A Senate committee has voted to authorize an investigation into the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care and to subpoena the company’s CEO
July 25, 2024
Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a bill that would require businesses with 25 or more employees to disclose a salary range when posting a job
July 24, 2024The Massachusetts Senate has approved a bill aimed in part at addressing some of the issues raised after Steward Health Care said it plans to sell off all its hospitals after announcing in May that it filed for bankruptcy protection
July 19, 2024Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has unveiled new restrictions on the state’s homeless family shelter programs
July 23, 2024A former manager for eBay Inc.’s
July 19, 2024
Massachusetts House lawmakers have approved a bill to boost the state’s reliance on renewable energy
July 17, 2024The recent stranding of more than 100 dolphins on Cape Cod is the largest such event involving dolphins in U.S. history
July 15, 2024
Drivers for ride-hailing companies in Massachusetts are pushing ahead with what they describe as a first-of-its-kind ballot question that could win them union rights if approved by voters
July 10, 2024
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced that it entered an agreement with Brown University to make sure the school's in compliance with federal law barring discrimination and harassment against students of Jewish, Palestinian, Arab and Muslim ancestry
July 08, 2024Subway riders in Boston are playing their own game of “Where’s Waldo?”
July 01, 2024
A Boston doctor was found not guilty Wednesday on a charge of lewd acts near a 14-year-old girl on an airplane after a three-day trial in federal court in Boston
January 31, 2024Top Massachusetts officials joined with NCAA President and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday to announce a new initiative aimed at tackling the public health harms associated with sports gambling among young people
March 28, 2024
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell says drivers for Uber and Lyft will earn a minimum pay standard of $32.50 per hour under a settlement
June 27, 2024
Two task forces charged with proposing ways to combat anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and antisemitism at Harvard University have delivered their preliminary recommendations to the school’s interim president
June 27, 2024
A bill aimed at outlawing “revenge porn” has been approved by lawmakers in the Massachusetts House and Senate and shipped to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey, a move advocates say was long overdue
June 13, 2024
Several people have been detained by police at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after demonstrators blocked a parking garage in their ongoing protest movement connected to the Israel-Hamas war
May 09, 2024
Steward Health Care says it plans to sell off all its hospitals after announcing this week that it filed for bankruptcy protection
May 08, 2024
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed from captivity in Indonesia's Papua
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel claims death of Hezbollah commander as Beirut toll rises
Biden is putting personal touch on Asia-Pacific diplomacy in his final months in office
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