Carolyn Muyskens

A controversial law that requires towns served by the Boston metro area's public transit system to allow greater housing density survived another legal challenge Friday, as Massachusetts' highest court affirmed the measure does not conflict with the state constitution.

A lawyer representing the government told a Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday the U.S. Department of Education intends to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding before it expires at the end of this month but urged the court not to order the department to do so.

Mass. Sheriff Acquitted Of Extorting Cannabis Co.

A cannabis company co-founder testified during a Massachusetts sheriff's corruption trial Friday that he thought it was wrong for the sheriff to be invested in the company but felt pressure to sell him a stake.

The social equity chief of cannabis company Ascend Wellness Holdings testified Thursday that she faced no pressure to hold on to an allegedly critical partnership with a Massachusetts sheriff who is now on trial for extortion.

A Massachusetts lawmaker was arrested early Wednesday on charges that he engaged in a series of schemes to fraudulently obtain more than $700,000 from COVID-19 pandemic-era relief programs, flipping some of the funds into higher-interest mortgages to others and paying campaign expenses, federal prosecutors said.

A former employee of a cannabis company that a Massachusetts sheriff is accused of shaking down for an investment opportunity testified Wednesday that the company had a partnership with the sheriff, but he also said it was never suggested that the firm's cannabis license was dependent on the sheriff's goodwill.

A Massachusetts state judge temporarily blocked a data center's expansion plans in Lowell on Monday, finding opponents of the project may be poised to succeed on the basis that they weren't given a full opportunity to be heard.

A Massachusetts federal judge appeared frustrated Friday by the Trump administration's argument that a mail ballot executive order is not ripe for judicial review, saying she and other voters are already being asked to decide if they will vote by mail in the midterm elections.

A Massachusetts federal judge appeared frustrated Friday by the Trump administration's argument that a mail ballot executive order is not ripe for judicial review, saying she and other voters are already being asked to decide if they will vote by mail in the midterm elections.