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Massachusetts state Representative David Nangle, center, left the federal courthouse in Boston after his initial appearance on Feb. 18, 2020.

Former state lawmaker’s fraud scheme relied on elected office — until indictment ended his career

David Nangle’s gambling habit, which lived largely in the shadows through his two decades in public office, motivated years of fraud, with the lawmaker scrambling for money wherever he could find it.

‘Castle Rock,’ the Stephen King-inspired television series, received $14 million in state subsidies

Massachusetts issued more than $77 million in film tax subsidies in 2019, including tens of millions of dollars to scripted television series — projects that officials have sought for years to attract to the state through its controversial tax credit program.

Should DiMasi, and other federal felons, face a ban on lobbying Beacon Hill? The SJC will decide

The question could be precedent-setting, and has been at the center of a two-plus-year legal battle between Secretary of State William Galvin and former Mass. House speaker Salvatore DiMasi.

Lowell is an immigrant city on the precipice of change

Tensions are high as this immigrant city faces the beginning of the end of majority-white rule. The old guard is begrudgingly making room for more diverse leadership, and community activists are demanding that city leaders recognize racism as an urgent problem.

Acting Mayor Kim Janey has proposed a a year-over-year increase of 3.9 percent in the city budget.
Janey says proposed $3.75b city budget is ‘built around an equitable recovery, reopening, and renewal’
Acting Mayor Kim Janey introduced a proposed $3.75 billion budget for next fiscal year, which starts July 1, saying it includes a “slate of investments that will help us create a more resilient city.”

House Ways and Means Chairman Aaron Michlewitz and House Speaker Ronald Mariano, both Democrats, brief reporters Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts State House library about their state budget proposal for fiscal year 2022.
Despite pandemic’s upheaval, fiscal outlook appears stable for state government
The Massachusetts House unveiled a $47.7 billion budget proposal Wednesday with a notable takeaway: The budget doesn’t propose big service cuts or major tax hikes, a far cry from the deep cuts feared a year ago because of uncertainty about the new virus.

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The Mass. State House in Boston.

Mass. House leaders unveil $47.7b spending plan that forgoes broad-based tax hikes

The budget proposal instead would allow the state to pluck up to $1.9 billion from the state’s emergency savings, a nod to the relatively careful forecasting lawmakers say the state will need amid its still-uncertain path through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Boston's Acting Mayor Kim Janey

Janey unveils $3.75 billion operating budget for Boston

The proposed budget includes $142 million in new revenue for a 3.9 percent increase over this year, city officials said Tuesday.

Boston's Acting Mayor Kim Janey in her City Hall office.

Watch live: Acting Mayor Janey to speak about public safety

Acting Mayor Kim Janey is scheduled to speak Tuesday about public safety efforts in Boston as well as give an update on the implementation of police reform and the creation of the Office of Police Accountability and Transparency.

A crew prepared to film a scene of "The Tender Bar" last month in Boston's South End.

As Beacon Hill begins budget debate, tax breaks come under scrutiny

A government report targets 10 tax breaks — collectively costing well over $200 million each year — that analysts say don’t earn enough money to justify their expense or are simply no longer relevant.

Laurel Wills, logistics and operations manager of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Educational Center Island in Boston Harbor, is the city's sole registered voter on the harbor islands.

Out in Boston Harbor, one voter is an island

On the beautifully isolated harbor islands, Laurel Wills is the single, solitary registered voter in Boston’s Precinct 15 of Ward 1.

Governor Charlie Baker.

Watch live: Governor Baker to speak about COVID-19 vaccination

Governor Charlie Baker is scheduled to speak Monday about COVID-19 in Massachusetts after touring a vaccination site in Worcester. Watch live here around noon.

Former Boston police Officer Patrick Rose Sr. (photographed in 2016).

How did a police union boss survive allegations of sexual abuse? We deserve to know

The career of former Boston Police officer Patrick Rose Sr. has left behind a string of unanswered questions.

Jim Lyons, chairman of the Republican Party in Massachusetts.

A senator donated $137,000 to the state GOP. The party then spent that same amount aiding his wife’s campaign

In the churn of the November election, state Senator Ryan Fattman made a series of rapid-fire and hefty donations to the Massachusetts Republican Party, totaling $137,000.