The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.31 a gallon in Massachusetts this week, up 40 cents from a week ago. That's according to the weekly survey from the auto club AAA.

A Legislative budget hearing focused on the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Executive Office of Transportation and the Registry of Motor Vehicles will be held this week.

About 30 business leaders and local officials from around Franklin County met with Eric Paley in Greenfield last week, telling the state's relatively new economic development secretary about the wonders and the challenges around the state's most rural county.

According to a survey by the auto club AAA Northeast, more than 900 million people flew last year. That’s less than one percent increase from 2024, but still a record.

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement falls under, ran out Saturday, causing a partial government shutdown. Springfield U.S. Rep. Richard Neal says Democrats have demands to try and reel in ICE.

A recent study finds that 'shrinkflation' isn't as widespread as initially believed. But data shows food products are still getting smaller.

The killing of Alex Pretti this weekend, a U.S. citizen at an immigration enforcement protest, has drawn calls for a probe from both sides of the aisle in Congress. The Trump Administration has maintained that the actions by federal authorities were justified.

CRRC recently announced it would furlough more than 160 employees beginning in March at its Springfield facility. Delivery of crucial parts of rail cars to be built there has been held up due to a trade dispute with the federal government.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will deliver the annual State of the Commonwealth address on Thursday evening.

Tina Packer, who in 1978, founded Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., died over the weekend.