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Robin Lubbock/WBUR2025 has been an eventful year in energy news, both nationally and here in Massachusetts. To help take stock of what's transpired over the last 12 month, and what may be coming next year, WBUR spoke with Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Rebecca Tepper. -
Priyanka Dayal McCluskey/WBURValley Medical Group says it’s entering a partnership with a Cambridge-based company to negotiate better insurance contracts and eventually offer better care. They hope to avoid becoming part of a large hospital system, as many primary care practices have done.
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File photo/State House News ServiceA plot line that was developing a year ago, overshadowed 2025 by a long shot: President Donald Trump's return to the White House and its impact on Beacon Hill. -
Karen Brown/NEPMAs people with SNAP food benefits brace for stricter rules and eligibility, retired teacher Mary Cowhey of Northampton, Mass., can attest to the longterm consequences of not having enough to eat.
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Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont have their own laws that limit or support the Trump administration’s efforts. -
Immigration arrests and deportations have shot up in New England, with the participation of federal, regional and local institutions. -
U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, a Springfield Democrat, says some of the GOP members who broke away from Speaker Mike Johnson on ACA vote were facing pressure in their respective districts. -
In October and November alone, 217 ICE flights departed from the airfield in Bedford, according to ICE Flight Monitor. -
Lawmakers will peer into the future and guess how much tax revenue Massachusetts can reliably count on to support state spending beginning six months from now and running through June 2027. -
The shooter is still at large. ‘We still have a lot of steps left to take, obviously, in this case,” Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said. -
The professor said her teaching assistant was leading the review session when a shooter entered a lecture hall and opened fire. The professor herself was not there. -
Springfield U.S Representative Richard Neal (D-Springfield) said if tax credits under the Affordable Care Act expire at the end of the month, about four million Americans might drop their health insurance due to soaring costs.
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65-year old David Morrison, who had been serving a life sentence in California, pleaded guilty this week to a 1981 kidnapping in Berkshire County and a 1986 murder in Vermont. -
The Pioneer Valley Project gathered community leaders and elected officials to stand in support of the Somali Bantu community against recent derogatory remarks from the president.
