Earthquake felt in Massachusetts: Boston researchers have quake warning system ‘on our radar’
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Massachusetts housing department approved four no-bid contracts for migrant shelter crisis
Massachusetts’ statewide housing agency inked at least four no-bid contracts in the past year to stand up services at state-run emergency shelters amid an influx of migrants, including a $6.8 million deal with a Cape Cod cab company to provide free transportation to shelter residents.
Groton-Dunstable override defeated
GROTON — Voters in Groton and Dunstable soundly rejected a proposed Proposition 2½ tax limit override, leaving their Select Boards and the Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee facing a hard deadline of June 30 to have new fiscal 2025 budgets approved.
Coward! Steward Health CEO dodges Senate hearing
A chair for Steward Health CEO Ralph de la Torre was notably vacant during the Senate’s hearing on the catastrophic financial mismanagement of the company’s Massachusetts hospitals and growing precarious role of private equity in healthcare Wednesday.
Official: Footage of bus driver shoving student ‘horrifying’
TOWNSEND — A school bus driver accused of shoving an eighth grade student to the floor of the bus during the ride home on Tuesday now faces a charge of assault and battery.
The Massachusetts man who received a pig kidney transplant discharged from MGH: ‘One of the happiest moments of my life’
The Weymouth man who received the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital.
