Massachusetts Senate Passes $41.5B Budget

After days of debate, the Massachusetts Senate has passed their budget for the 2019 fiscal year. After senators added $75.5 million dollars in spending, the Ways and Means Committee tallied the budget at $41.49 billion. The budget debate wrapped up at 12: …

Are Massachusetts Schools Any Safer Since Newtown?

There have been 152 shootings since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, according to the Gun Violence Archive. After that shooting, then-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick convened a task force to make …

MassDev to Fund Nine Real Estate Projects Across Massachusetts

MassDevelopment will provide up to $287,000 in funding for nine projects through its real estate services program. Under this program, the agency works with municipal officials, planners, local stakeholders and others to provide technical assistance to …

Ceiling of historic church collapses in Massachusetts

IPSWICH, Mass. (AP) - The interior ceiling of a historic Massachusetts church has collapsed, causing damage but no injuries. WFXT-TV reports that the collapse at the Living Faith United Methodist Church in Ipswich happened about 4 p.m. Friday when the …

Canadian police seek 2 after bomb wounds 15 at restaurant

TORONTO — Police hunted for two people Friday after an explosion caused by a homemade bomb ripped through an Indian restaurant at a mall in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, wounding 15 people. Authorities said two people with their faces covered to …

Game 6 Live: Celtics look to close out Cavs in Cleveland

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Marine who died in WWII buried in Massachusetts

Updated 11:38 am, Friday, May 25, 2018 This circa 1940s photo released by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows Marine Corps Pfc. Francis E. Drake, born in Framingham, Mass., raised in Springfield, and killed in 1942 during the World World War …

Sponsored: Real Estate Confidential: What’s up on West Chop

Real Estate Confidential — chit-chat about new listings, sales or other insider info on the Martha’s Vineyard real estate market, by Fred Roven, Martha’s Vineyard Buyer Agents, appears each Friday in The Minute. The first big decision in discussing West …

US Offshore Wind Revolution Sets 5 Gigawatt Target In Massachusetts, Rhode Island, & New Jersey

Clean Power Published on May 24th, 2018 | by Joshua S Hill 0 May 24th, 2018 by Joshua S Hill  A trio of announcements from the northeast United States has set the country’s nascent offshore wind industry ablaze, with Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New …