BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is wrapping up a COVID-19 business relief program that provided more than $687 million in direct cash grants, many targeted to minority and women business owners, Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts will begin expanding walk-up COVID-19 vaccination opportunities as it tries to make it easier for residents to protect themselves against the disease.

Beginning Monday, four additional mass vaccination locations will begin offering walk-up shots, Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts residents who are able to socially distance from others no longer have to wear a mask outdoors...

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker said his body ached and he experienced chills after receiving his second COVID-19 vaccine shot — and then immediately urged fellow Massachusetts residents to get their shots to help the state suppress the coronavirus...

BOSTON (AP) — Emerging COVID-19 variants have been hitting younger people more seriously than earlier strains of the disease last year, Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday he’s pressing federal officials to reconsider how they distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to take into consideration the relative demand for the vaccine in individual states...

BOSTON (AP) — Nearly 2 million Massachusetts residents are newly eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts has fallen just short of a prediction by Gov. Charlie Baker that 2 million residents would be reported fully vaccinated by Friday...

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts House voted Thursday to approve a $400 million bond bill to pay for a new facility to replace the existing Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, the site of one of the nation's deadliest coronavirus outbreaks at a long-term care facility...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is forging ahead with plans to vaccinate as many residents as possible, despite placing a pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on the advice of federal authorities, Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — A national political action committee dedicated to helping elect Democratic woman who support abortion rights say they are targeting a series of Republican governors, including Massachusetts Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts residents hoping to book COVID-19 vaccination appointments through the state website will have additional locations to choose from beyond the state’s seven existing mass vaccination sites, Gov...

The Democratic governor of Connecticut and the Republican governor of Massachusetts joined forces Tuesday to publicly pitch similar legislative proposals for curbing prescription drug costs, plans that would financially penalize drug manufacturers for excessive price increases...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker received his COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.

The Republican governor got his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston at about 2:30 p...

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — The state has promised to chip in more than $4 million toward a planned facility in Quincy that will serve the area's homeless population...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — A search committee selected the administrator of the Idaho State Veterans Home to be the next superintendent of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home in Massachusetts, which last spring had one of the deadliest coronavirus outbreaks at a long-term care facility in the nation...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is on track to receive more than 100,000 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine next week, Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, a critic of Republican Gov. Charlie Baker’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, is weighing a bid for Massachusetts governor next year...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a sweeping climate change bill into law Friday, ending months of negotiations as the legislation shuttled back and forth between the Democratic-controlled Legislature and the Republican governor...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers are renewing a push for mandatory genocide education after a high school football coach was fired following reports that the team used anti-Semitic language, including a mention of Auschwitz, in its on-field play calling...

BOSTON (AP) — Residents who can’t leave their homes to travel to a mass vaccination site or other vaccine distribution location can take part in a new statewide homebound vaccination program, Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday that he plans to sign a sweeping climate change bill, ending months of shuttling the legislation back and forth between the Democratic-controlled Legislature and the Republican governor...

Gov. Charlie Baker again defended his administration’s handling of the state’s vaccine rollout efforts during a public hearing Tuesday before a state legislative panel monitoring the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts on Monday made about 800,00O additional residents eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine and relaxed restrictions on many business and public events...

A look at pandemic-related news around New England on Sunday:

A look at pandemic-related news around New England on Saturday:

BOSTON (AP) — More than 1 million Massachusetts residents have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday again sent back to Gov. Charlie Baker a sweeping climate change bill that has bounced between the Democratic-controlled Legislature and the Republican governor for the past several months...

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate on Monday again approved a sweeping climate change bill that has ping-ponged between lawmakers and Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — About 400 members of the Massachusetts National Guard are leaving this weekend for Washington to provide public safety support to local, state, and federal agencies in the region...

BOSTON (AP) — About 200,000 Massachusetts residents preregistered for COVID-19 vaccine shots Friday morning after the state launched a new website with the hope of avoiding the confusion and virtual sparring that occurred under the previous system...

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The rift between Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and the state’s teachers unions deepened Thursday as the Republican bristled at calls to take additional steps to vaccinate educators before ending virtual education in favor of in-classroom learning...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' education commissioner has been given the greenlight to compel districts to return to in-person classes, roughly a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced them to shutter schools and switch to online classes...

BOSTON (AP) — The state-run coronavirus vaccination site at Fenway Park will close as the Boston Red Sox prepare for opening day of the new baseball season...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts residents have increasingly been going online during the COVID-19 crisis to purchase nearly everything under the sun — including alcohol...

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker is coming under criticism from some health experts who are warning that his decision to ease coronavirus restrictions is too soon and may lead to more misery down the road...

BOSTON (AP) — A measure aimed at eliminating the need for a special election in Boston if Mayor Marty Walsh steps down to become President Joe Biden’s labor secretary was signed into law by Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker said the state is working to improve its vaccine finder website by creating what he described as a “digital waiting room...

BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Charlie Baker has signed an executive order making it easier for military personnel and their spouses to continue their civilian careers when they are transferred to Massachusetts military installations...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ COVID-19 vaccine appointment portal temporarily crashed Thursday morning as more than 1 million additional state residents became eligible to schedule a shot...

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts should create a centralized COVID-19 vaccine sign-up system to let all residents pre-register for shots, confirm eligibility and receive a notification when an appointment becomes available at a nearby location, members of the state's congressional delegation said Tuesday in a letter to Gov...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Coronavirus developments across New England:

MASSACHUSETTS

Elderly Massachusetts residents who can’t leave their homes are struggling to get vaccinated, and disability advocates say the state isn’t doing enough to address the problem...

Some Massachusetts hospital leaders and physicians said they disagree with a plan by the administration of Gov...

BOSTON (AP) — Dozens of vaccinated health care workers scored a free trip to the Super Bowl on Sunday, courtesy of the New England Patriots and the Kraft family...