Steve LeBlanc

Traffic congestion in Massachusetts has reached a tipping point as the state’s existing transportation infrastructure bumps up against a surging economy. That’s according to a report released Thursday by the state Department of Transportation. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker had directed the agency last August to study when, where and why traffic congestion occurs in Massachusetts.

A bill designed to rev up the state’s reliance on renewable energy by imposing a charge on carbon emissions is gaining steam at the Massachusetts Statehouse.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker proposed legislation Wednesday that would push ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft to provide more information about where and when they’re picking up and dropping off riders. Baker said the bill would give cities and towns better data to plan for the explosive growth of the companies, which comes amid increasing frustration with traffic congestion, particularly...

Massachusetts has issued over 1,000 suspensions after reviewing unprocessed out-of-state notifications at the embattled Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV), officials said Friday. Gov. Charlie Baker and other officials held a press conference to provide updates on the Baker administration’s efforts to reform the RMV in the wake of a motorcycle crash in New Hampshire that killed seven.

The Massachusetts motor vehicle department wasn’t properly processing out-of-state notifications about driving offenses, instead putting them into storage bins where they were left untouched, an investigation found. The interim report released Monday by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation was sparked by the New Hampshire motorcycle crash that killed seven.

The Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth has permanently shut down after 47 years of generating electricity. The final shutdown occurred at 5:28 p.m. Friday. Entergy, which owns the plan, announced in 2015 it would retire Massachusetts’ only remaining nuclear reactor, citing competition from less expensive energy sources.

Workers at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station are prepping for the plant’s shutdown after 47 years of operation. On Friday, a team of about six or seven workers will begin the process of reducing the plant’s power from the current 40% to zero. The process will occur over about a five-hour period in a 1970s-era control room that contains hundreds...

Parents whose children fatally overdosed on opioids are demanding Harvard University remove the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin from a building that housed one of its art museums. About two dozen parents protested Friday outside the building the housed the Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

The thorny question of abortion rights is again taking center stage on Beacon Hill and putting some top officials in an uncomfortable spot, chief among them Gov. Charlie Baker.

Ask Gov. Charlie Baker what the biggest threat is to the state’s sizzling economy, and he’s likely to say the sluggish growth in new housing.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says his administration is exploring ways to offer state unemployment benefits to federal workers and contractors who are not being paid because of the partial federal government shutdown. Baker said there are about 47,000 federal employees in Massachusetts, many of whom have been furloughed and are going without pay. Thousands of contractors are in the same position.

The opioid crisis is costing Massachusetts $2.5 billion a year in lost productivity from employees who aren’t showing up for work because of their addiction or who are showing up, but are so distracted by their addiction or need to care for an addicted family member they can’t concentrate on their jobs. That’s among the findings of a report released...

Declaring that “change can’t wait,” Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley defeated incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano on Tuesday in a closely watched Democratic primary battle in Massachusetts.

Voters in Massachusetts chose between incumbents and fresh faces in Tuesday’s primary, where several members of the state’s all-Democratic U.S. House delegation faced spirited challenges.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have announced offshore wind projects aimed at delivering a combined 1,200 megawatts of energy — or enough to power 600,000 homes.

Voters in Alaska’s largest city are on track to becoming the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill in a referendum that asked them to require people using public bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender at birth. The initiative asked Anchorage’s voters to repeal an ordinance passed in 2015 that prevented discrimination based on sexual...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech before his assassination 50 years ago this week will be read out aloud in Boston.

A bill Massachusetts lawmakers are considering would place taxes on short-term rentals, including those made available through online platforms such as Airbnb.

One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead.

Massachusetts gambling regulators are holding a special meeting to discuss sexual misconduct allegations against casino magnate Steve Wynn, whose company is building a $2.4 billion casino outside Boston.