Tax cuts. Cutting red tape. Deregulation. Making life easier for businesses. Cracking down on free benefits for newly arrived migrants. A pledge to work with the Trump administration. Those are key issues that Massachusetts conservatives have long championed.

"This is one of the reasons why states have got to get to court and take on Donald Trump," Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday.

Massachusetts is expected to join in legal action as President Trump's administration begins a review of spending that could freeze trillions of government dollars.

Governor Maura Healey’s office rejected a Globe request for documents tied to the order, claiming they are confidential communications between officials and legal counsel.

Governor Healey bans NDAs in employment cases within the executive branch, mandating transparency in settlements.

Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr discusses Healey's new budget proposal, state spending and the state auditor's new ability to audit the state legislature.

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

A coalition pushing a 2026 ballot question that would repeal a gun law Gov. Maura Healey signed last year raised more than $136,000 in four months but drew roughly a third of its cash from a gun

Federal authorities are threatening to investigate state officials who don't comply with immigration enforcement policies.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is touting a multi-billion investment plan targeting higher education. On the heels of her State of the Commonwealth address and ahead of her $62 billion budget proposal, Healey unveiled a plan to invest at least $2.5 billion into the state’s public universities and colleges, including its community colleges.

If President Donald Trump puts a 25% tariff on products coming from Canada starting next weekend, as he said this week he is considering, electricity costs in Massachusetts could increase by as much as $200 million a year, Gov. Maura Healey told business leaders Thursday morning.

Healey’s travel in 2024 included a stretch in which she visited or was traveling to other states on 28 of the 80 days from the day she left Massachusetts for the Democratic National Convention in mid-August through Election Day on Nov.