Boston Mayor Michelle Wu may be on vacation this week, but she still made a splash in city development politics by announcing she was replacing two members of the board controlling the Boston Planning & Development Agency, an entity she’s sought to dismantle.
Fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10 percent of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has so far disbursed in EDIL loans, PPP loan and other COVID relief aid.
A vacant industrial building in Lynn will be updated to become the new home of a manufacturer that supplies heated gloves and boots to the U.S. military.
Rockland Trust has provided $7.4 million in financing to Hajjar Management Co. Inc. to redevelop a vacant Fall River school into an apartment building.
As summer turns to fall, it seems like we’re putting COVID behind us. Or are we?
Without a last-minute agreement between the House and Senate, the authority for public bodies, agencies and commissions to hold their meetings remotely is due to expire at the end of this week, and affected groups are taking note.
Almost exactly two years to the day that the coronavirus pandemic was declared an emergency in Massachusetts, the state’s top public health officer painted a brightening picture of the pandemic Wednesday and said she is optimistic about the trajectory of the state’s response.
Pfizer has begun a study comparing its original COVID-19 vaccine with doses specially tweaked to match the hugely contagious omicron variant.
With 2021 ending a lot like 2020. Why not just give last year’s resolutions another try?
As the omicron variant continues to drive rapid spread, some public health experts warn that the Baker administration has not done enough to get additional shots into arms.
The Economic Injury Disaster Loan program for small businesses affected by COVID-19, a key financing option throughout the pandemic, will close on Friday.
After hosting an oversight hearing that top state health officials skipped, high-ranking lawmakers are now calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to consider a menu of pandemic management options, including quarantine and isolation shelters and a pause on school mask mandate exemptions.
A downtown Boston law firm has committed to become the second tenant at the One Congress office tower.
Gov. Charlie Baker said his administration has secured over 2 million rapid COVID-19 tests and will be distributing them in the state’s communities “hardest hit” by the pandemic.
A woman in her 20s who had traveled out of state is the first known case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus detected in Massachusetts, the state Department of Public Health announced Saturday.
As COVID-19 cases surge in Massachusetts and around the country and scientists begin to get a better picture of a worrisome new variant circulating, President Joe Biden on Thursday laid out his strategy to control the pandemic this winter without putting new restrictions on the economy.
The World Health Organization says it could still take some time to get a full picture of the threat posed by omicron, a new variant of the coronavirus as scientists worldwide scramble to assess its multiple mutations.
Count Gov. Charlie Baker among the public officials who are eagerly awaiting answers to crucial questions about the latest COVID-19 mutant and whether it could alter the nature of the pandemic and the public health response.
A 175-room hotel will occupy one of the two undeveloped parcels at Boston Landing under development plans submitted by NB Development.
