Gov. Maura Healey

A hero is defined as a person admired for achievements and noble qualities or someone who shows great courage. For Gov. Maura Healey, she didn’t have to look far to find hers.

The working group assigned by Gov. Maura Healey to figure out what to do with the shuttered Carney Hospital is planning to look more broadly at the roots of health disparities in the Dorchester community.

Through an ambitious funding plan, announced last week, Gov. Maura Healey set her sights on stabilizing and improving transportation across Massachusetts.

State legislators passed two bills at the end of the legislative session that, if signed by Gov. Maura Healey, would add new health care reform in Massachusetts.

For the first time in more than 20 years, trains in the MBTA can run at full speed throughout the entire subway system.

On Monday, Mayor Michelle Wu joined Jeannine Russell, Gov. Maura Healey, other state and local officials, and Celtics leadership and players to rename the North Washington Street Bridge the William Felton “Bill” Russell Bridge, in honor of NBA legend and civil rights activist Bill Russell.   

The passage of new state legislation last month slated 225 new liquor licenses to hit Boston’s streets in the coming years.

Massachusetts received more than $20 million in federal funding to assist in managing its ongoing shelter crisis, the state announced on Aug. 28.

Five of the seven remaining hospitals owned by Steward Health Care are on their way to officially being under new ownership, according to an announcement last week by Gov. Maura Healey.

As a new state shelter policy that will limit longer-term access gears up, support providers for migrants in the state are grappling with increased need and growing panic from the communities they serve.

On July 29, when Governor Maura Healey signed the budget for Fiscal Year 2025, it finalized a process allocating $57.8 billion in funding for the commonwealth and state-funded organizations, including millions for educational efforts across the state.

Starting Tuesday, July 9, migrant families who had been staying overnight in Terminal E of Boston Logan International Airport were no longer permitted to do so, Gov. Maura Healey announced at the end of June.