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By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Public construction projects costing over $1 million would be required to use apprentices, under a bill that union supporters say will guarantee the future of the state’s trade workforce.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Gov. Maura Healey backed Newsom on Wednesday as protests over federal immigration raids have dragged into their fifth day in Los Angeles.

By ELLA ADAMS

BOSTON – Massachusetts is mired in a work zone safety “crisis,” and allowing state transportation vehicles to utilize blue lights at sites on high-speed roadways would slow down drivers and save lives, the state’s top highway official told lawmakers on Tuesday.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Representatives on one legislative committee are not ready to decide whether one of the most controversial proposals on their plate should move forward early in the lawmaking term.

By ELLA ADAMS

BOSTON – To the tune of the 215th Army Band, families of Massachusetts veterans who lost their lives during or as a result of service gathered with state leaders this week in anticipation of Memorial Day and in recognition of their loved ones’ sacrifices.

By SAM DRYSDALE

Career technical schools in Massachusetts will use a lottery system to admit students when there are more applicants than available seats, an approach that supporters say will ensure fairness and critics warn will water down education standards.

By SAM DRYSDALE

The state will close its remaining motel and hotel shelters this summer, Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday, as the governor and lawmakers have imposed restrictions on the emergency housing system over the past year and family enrollment has declined.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is proposing to repeal a law put in place by voters as part of a worldwide nuclear freeze movement, a bid to open the door to greater deployment of newer nuclear energy facilities as part of a push to save ratepayers $10 billion over a decade.

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — As President Donald Trump passes 100 days in his second term in office, Gov. Maura Healey says she’s still willing to work with him, but called his administration “a disaster” so far.

By SAM DRYSDALE

Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday nominated two new Superior Court judges, both of whom her office pointed out live in western Massachusetts, after a group of 20 lawmakers called on the governor to fill several vacant seats in the area.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

A recommendation from a task force the Legislature created a decade ago has resurfaced before the Revenue Committee, which took testimony earlier this month related to the machinations involved when a farm wants to use a portion of its land to generate both renewable electricity and supplemental income.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao is stepping down from her port at the end of the month, with Undersecretary of Economic Foundations Ashley Stolba in line to take over the secretary’s duties on an interim basis, the Healey administration said Tuesday.

By Alison Kuznitz

With three state-funded youth mental health programs at risk of closing, lawmakers and providers ramped up their opposition this week to Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed budget cuts that come as Massachusetts continues to grapple with a behavioral health care crisis.

By ELLA ADAMS

BOSTON — Students warned lawmakers Tuesday of funding deficits and unpredictability, faculty layoffs and slashed electives at regional and rural schools, piling on to heightened calls to “crack open” the state’s Chapter 70 and rural aid funding formula.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — Sheriffs want lawmakers to consider reining in unlimited free phone calls at county jails amid bulging costs and heightened demand on correctional officers to monitor those communications.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Congressional Democrats warned Tuesday that rising wait times for assistance at the Social Security Administration and the prospect of delayed checks amount to a “backdoor cut” to benefits.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — About 3.1 million people in Massachusetts already have a Real ID-compliant driver’s license or identification card and demand for the Registry of Motor Vehicles appointment required to get one is high ahead of a long-awaited May deadline.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

The Healey administration has launched a new website to connect fired federal workers with job opportunities and training resources in Massachusetts.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The Healey administration hopes to save residents billions of dollars in energy costs over the next five years by pulling a host of executive-branch levers, including redirection of some clean energy development funding to shave $50 off electricity bills in April.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — More than six years in, the legal cannabis industry landscape in Massachusetts has had a chance to evolve, and a new industry report examines some of the trend lines.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The Trump administration’s ongoing push to slash the federal workforce and spending is continuing to raise angst, with recent rounds of cuts drawing the ire of a leading local veterans organization and the New England Aquarium.