GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

It'll be May at the end of the week. Massachusetts lawmakers are aiming to have a balanced budget process complete and signed by the Governor before the end of the fiscal year, June 30th.

Tal Kopan is deputy Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe.

A suspect has been identified in the Saturday night shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. President Trump and several cabinet members were safely rushed from the event.

Delegates at the convention being held in Worcester will choose who out of three candidates will be endorsed for the 2026 election

Today we dive deep into the Massachusetts Public Record Law.

The U.S. Senate early Thursday started the process of trying to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The Republican majority is using what is known as the "reconciliation” process, which is time consuming but eliminates the need for 60 votes in that chamber.

We talk to the organizers of Hampshire Pride that will hit the Northampton streets on May 2, speak with mezzo soprano Catilin Felsman ahead of Opera on Tap coming to The Iron Horse, and have our weekly chat with Rep. Jim McGovern.

UMass Amherst economists found there's an uptick in patent applications among states with legal recreational pot, but federal research restrictions still make clinical trials hard to do.

A look at how lawmakers frame their funding, as Mass. plans for a $3-billion higher education infrastructure upgrade. At the same time towns are hitting tax limits, and rejecting override votes to raise taxes.

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified before the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday. Springfield U.S. Representative Richard Neal is the top Democrat on the panel and was one of several from his party who grilled Kennedy.