Gov. Maura Healey slipped a series of tax increases into her fiscal year 2026 budget like applying the sales tax to candy, slapping the tobacco tax on synthetic nicotine produces, imposing an ...

Apple Inc. has purchased the Boylston Street property that houses its Back Bay store for $88 million, in one of the priciest retail real estate deals in Massachusetts in recent years.

Andrea Campbell's new STUDY Act bill would ban cellphones from the first bell to last in all Massachusetts public schools.

The company buying Big Lots has started to narrow down which stores will definitely close, including several Massachusetts ...

The governor estimates that eliminating the sales tax exemption on candy could raise $25 million. Right now, Massachusetts is one of 11 states that exempt candy from the sales tax. WBZ-TV reached out ...

Relatives and total strangers alike made me feel I was part of Ireland’s history, even though I grew up in Dorchester.

Though the avian flu is — for now — affecting flocks mostly in California and the Midwest, the diminished supplies are ...

Massachusetts is in store for its first major winter storm of 2025 as meteorologists say they are seeing “indicators” for a ...

A lucky Massachusetts State Lottery player bought a winning Powerball ticket worth $50,000 at a Boston liquor store on Saturday.

January in New England is a great time to cozy up with a good book. Need ideas? Tonight, we revisit the Montague Book Mill, home to 40,000 books in a historic mill, and the Boston Athenaeum, a private ...

New shops and restaurants in Cambridge's Central Square, a new pickleball chain enters Massachusetts, and more local retail ...

Cumby’s has lost its lawsuit against a local health board after an area store was busted for offering an illegal flavored tobacco product for sale. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled ...