Massachusetts has the second-highest effective tax rate of any U.S. state, according to a report from FinanceBuzz. That's partly because the Bay State's high median annual income ($76,732) pushes many ...

When it comes to gun violence and mass shootings, the U.S. has significantly higher rates than other developed countries. In 2025, there were approximately 14,700 shooting-related deaths and at least ...

“A different group of people are coming before the Parole Board, largely because of the Mattis decision,” said lawyer Ryan Schiff. The Parole Board members at the Massachusetts Parole Board's central ...

Massachusetts is among the worst states in the country in fraud detection, an expert says, as several public benefits fraud schemes have been uncovered recently by both federal and state investigators ...

The oxymoronically named “Mass Save” program is one reason why Massachusetts electric rates are among the highest in the nation. The City of Framingham and Town of Natick are hosting a “participatory ...

Traditional DP flow measurement is focused on volume, not mass. Historical equation development was complicated and iterative. Rather than correcting deviations from theory, the Energy Correlation ...

Facing calls to tackle the state’s surging utility costs, Governor Maura Healey on Thursday said the state will cut electric bills by as much as 15 percent over the next two months by repurposing some ...

On the following slides are the 20 Massachusetts communities (ranked from No. 20 to No. 1) with the highest residential property tax rates as of January 2026 ...

Mortgage rates on Friday fell below 6% for the first time in years, after President Donald Trump ordered his “representatives” to begin buying $200 billion worth of mortgage bonds, his latest push to ...

The Federal Reserve still sees just one rate cut in 2026, unchanged from its last forecast about three months ago. The central bank's so-called dot plot, which anonymously shows 19 individual members' ...

To break through the lithological constraints on the surrounding rock for the construction of underground water-sealed oil storage caverns, and considering limestone as a potential host rock for such ...