Charlie Baker

Before he leaves office, Gov. Charlie Baker wants the Massachusetts Governor’s Council to revisit one of the nation’s most highly charged and disputed abuse cases of the 1980s with recommended pardons for Gerald “Tooky” Amirault and Cheryl Amirault Lefave, who were convicted of sexually abusing young children at their Malden day care. The Amiraults were tried and convicted of...

Republicans did worse than widely expected in last week’s midterm elections because part of the party is in the grips of extremism, outgoing Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said in a new interview. The two-term governor made the comments in a rare national interview, a sit-down with CNN’s Jake Tapper that aired Monday. He said voters “aren’t interested in extremism,”...

While estranged from many in his party, Republican Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has continued to devote time and energy to a group dedicated to electing more Republican governors across the country. Baker will pick up his work Monday for the Republican Governors Association, traveling to Florida for RGA meetings. Baker has emphasized the importance of bipartisanship in governing during his…

Attorney General Maura Healey announced that Lieutenant Governor-elect Kim Driscoll will head up the gubernatorial transition, which already has a website with a job application portal. Healey found time to meet with Gov. Charlie Baker along with other stops on her first day as governor-elect. After making history as the state’s first female elected governor, Healey and Driscoll, visited...

Massachusetts voters made Maura Healey the state’s governor-elect while New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Chris Pappas were all reelected.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker told reporters Tuesday that he liked being governor and will be sad to leave the job at the end of his term.

A day after negotiators announced a resolution to their months-long impasse, both branches gave final approval to the nearly $3.8 billion bill

Steve Poftak is on his way out as the MBTA’s general manager, leaving a transit system struggling to meet standards for performance and safety. “Steve Poftak was a smart guy, sincere guy, tried to do a good job but that wasn’t his background. It was more in academics,” said state Rep. William Straus of the Legislature’s Joint Transportation Committee....

Changes are coming to the MBTA, but whether they lead to a better future remains to be seen.

Gov. Charlie Baker wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Monday, urging the Biden administration to do more to help states like Massachusetts support migrants seeking asylum and arriving from countries like Haiti. The governor took issue with what he described as a bifurcated system that offers more resources…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker offered a peek into his ballot on Thursday, revealing that he’ll likely vote no on a dental insurance spending ballot question and yes on a liquor licensing reform measure on Nov. 8 — though he still won’t say who he’ll pick to succeed him in the corner office. Baker made no objection when host of...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday recommended his second batch of pardons in two weeks, including forgiveness for three people for decades-old convictions including intent to distribute cocaine and stealing alcohol from a package store. Christopher Nichols was convicted of nine offenses in 2002 after he, then a high school senior preparing to depart for bootcamp, joined some buddies in…

The vast majority of the more than 41,000 executive branch workers subject to that mandate complied. About 1,000 had left their jobs by the end of the year via resignation or termination, according to data the administration published in December.

Massachusetts voters will decide directly on four key issues in the Nov. 8 election, including a tax on income over $1 million, regulation of dental insurance, an expansion of alcohol license availability and whether to keep or repeal a new law allowing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants.

The Baker administration has offered jobs back to “a small number” of former state employees who had been among a narrow minority of executive branch workers out of compliance with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, officials said Tuesday. A spokesperson for Gov. Charlie Baker confirmed the administration “has recently been able to accommodate a small number of positions who previously were…

Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday recommended pardons for four men convicted decades ago of crimes ranging from property destruction to assault and battery, pointing to their subsequent rehabilitation and calling them “worthy candidates” to wipe the slate clean. The governor moved to pardon Kenneth Dunn, who was convicted in 1971 of larceny from a building; Steven Joanis, convicted in 1990…

Expunging criminal records for simple marijuana possession would be the “fastest, easiest and quickest way” to deal with those convictions, not pardons like President Joe Biden recommended, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday. After Biden on Thursday announced he would make pardons available for thousands of Americans with federal simple marijuana possession convictions and urged governors to do the same…

President Joe Biden is calling on governors nationwide to pardon people serving time for marijuana possession at the state level.

The migrants who were flown by Florida to Cape Cod have all left the military base where they’d been getting temporary housing for other alternatives, the Baker administration says.