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City Council votes in favor of salary increases for mayor, councilors — bumping pay higher than Mayor Wu proposed

Under the plan, which the 13-member body passed unanimously, the mayor’s annual salary would increase to $250,000 from $207,000, while councilors’ would climb to $125,000 from $103,500.

Sleepwalking into a third COVID winter? Neither Healey nor Diehl have shared a plan for the pandemic.

Neither major party candidate for governor in Massachusetts has articulated their plans for how they might manage another surge, if elected.

Millionaires tax proceeds are supposed to bolster education and transportation. Lawmakers would decide if they actually do.

Should voters embrace Question 1, the decision about where the money ultimately goes — and who benefits — would rest with legislators.

Updated Boston 311 app adds support for 10 new languages

The overnight update added Spanish, Haitian Creole, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Cape Verdean Creole, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, and French. Previously, English was the only language supported.

Boston City Council redistricting leaders propose new political maps
Boston City Council redistricting leaders on Monday proposed a new set of boundaries for council districts, an early but important milestone as the body races to finish redrawing its political maps ahead of an early November deadline.

In Chelsea, Maura Healey meets with Latina small business owners
Healey, the state attorney general and Democratic nominee for governor, told reporters she empathized with the challenges facing small business owners in Massachusetts, who are still recovering from the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Governor Charlie Baker chatted with beekeeper Jim Stefanik at the Hampden County Beekeepers stand inside the Big E Fair in West Springfield.

Doughnut breakfast sandwich, selfies, ribbon-cuttings: Baker quietly taking local roads to exit

Unlike many of his predecessors, Governor Charlie Baker will leave office in January showing no appetite for national politics. His months have instead been drumbeat of groundbreakings, grant announcements, and small-town appearances. 4:46 p.m.

Geoff Diehl and Maura Healey will face off in the general election for Massachusetts governor in November.

After uncertainty, Democrats commit to debates in most statewide races

Debates have been scheduled between the major-party candidates in the contests for governor, attorney general, and auditor. 4:28 p.m.

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo listened to colleague Frank Baker speak during a contentious meeting in August.

Deeply divided, can Boston’s city councilors repair relations?

A highly charged August meeting laid bare what has become a raw rift that had been months in the making. 6:11 p.m.

City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo voted at the Franklin D. Roosevelt school in Hyde Park.

At redistricting hearing, advocates call for Arroyo to be reinstated as chair

During a City Hall hearing focused on potential changes to the map of City Council districts, leaders from a number of advocacy organizations on Thursday called for Councilor Ricardo Arroyo to be reinstated as chair of the committee in charge of the once-in-a-decade mapmaking process. 5:55 p.m.

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A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan leads Republican Don Bolduc by 8.5 percentage points, while Republican incumbent Governor Chris Sununu leads Democratic rival Tom Sherman by a wide margin. 5:09 p.m.

Jim Lyons, chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, spoke at a rally for an effort to repeal a law that will give undocumented residents access to driver's licenses.

Effort to repeal driver’s licenses for undocumented Mass. residents has enough support to make the ballot, Republicans say

Organizers behind the GOP-led effort say they have submitted more than double the amount of signatures they need to get on the ballot in November. 11:33 a.m.

New Hampshire State House in Concord, N.H.

Explore the data: Poll of New Hampshire voters

A new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found Senator Maggie Hassan leading her Republican challenger, Don Bolduc, and Governor Chris Sununu holding a strong lead over Democrat Tom Sherman. Here are the full results. 9:01 a.m.

Police investigate fistfight involving GOP congressional candidate outside Somerville Theatre Saturday

Somerville police are investigating a fight involving US Representative Ayanna Pressley’s GOP challenger during a political event Saturday featuring Pressley and other Democratic members of the Squad at the Somerville Theatre. 8:07 p.m.