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By CHRIS LISINSKI and COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — The top Republican in the Massachusetts House is still parsing the so-called “big, beautiful bill” that became law Friday to figure out where he lands.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

On the same day President Donald Trump signed a landmark domestic policy bill that will reshape state finances for years to come, Gov. Maura Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a companion proposal designed to empower her administration with greater cost-cutting power.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The budget that lawmakers sent to Gov. Maura Healey's desk Monday features the latest signal that Beacon Hill is taking a different approach to the state's rainy day savings account.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON – Cannabis regulators have ordered one of the state's independent testing labs to suspend operations, alleging a "pattern of failing to accurately report" marijuana test results and "an intentional effort to conceal those failing results."

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON – The Legislature on Monday tossed the budget hot potato to Gov. Maura Healey, approving an annual spending bill on the earliest date in nearly a decade as Congress hurtles toward major spending cuts that could force significant revisions to state plans.

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — As turmoil engulfed a federal vaccine advisory panel earlier this month, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein urged his own set of advisors to stay open-minded while also hinting at the possibility of disentangling state policy from the Trump administration.

By SAM DRYSALE

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is “less focused on regulation and more focused on implementation” of artificial intelligence, and says she hasn’t “focused too much” on a piece of the budget bill moving through Congress that would prevent states from regulating AI.

By SAM DRYSDALE

Looking to keep pressure on what they deem an untransparent and ineffective Legislature, a coalition of unlikely allies is considering whether to bring two “good governance” measures straight to voters via the ballot.

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — A bill to fortify protections under a 2022 law that shields reproductive and transgender care providers from out-of-state and federal threats received a favorable report from the Senate members of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary on Thursday.

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Hundreds of thousands of small business employees and individuals could face significantly higher health insurance premiums next year under proposed rate increases that critics warn would add another crushing weight to employers and residents already struggling to manage high costs.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources got its feet wet Tuesday, diving into testimony on bills dealing with water.

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The House approved a significant overhaul of marijuana oversight in Massachusetts on Wednesday, passing a bill that would downsize and reorient the scandal-hounded Cannabis Control Commission that has kept tabs on the legal industry since it launched almost eight years ago.

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 CHRIS LISINSKI

Tens of thousands of Bay Staters could lose subsidized health insurance through the Massachusetts Health Connector and premiums could rise for most other members under a suite of reforms in the U.S. House-approved reconciliation bill that Gov. Maura Healey dubbed “devastating.”

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 last week in anticipation of Memorial Day and in recognition of their loved ones’ sacrifices.

By MICHAEL P. NORTON

No-bid emergency food and transportation service procurements followed a failure by state officials to assess and react to a spike in demand for shelter services, according audit results released Tuesday.

By ELLA ADAMS

Representing their experiences living through the child welfare system, a multi-generational ensemble of performers took center stage Wednesday at the State House as service providers and child welfare advocates called on the state to support key programs.

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 COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — One representative called it a “wonderful, reefer-smelling bag” and another worried a drug-sniffing dog might alert to him at the airport later as he passed the bundle of products down the Cannabis Policy Committee dais.