News and Announcements

Funding will help protect farmlands, forests and wetlands to combat climate change and enhance resilience

Announcement Delivers Funding from 12 State Grant Programs That Will Help Create Over 18,000 Housing Units, 31,000 Jobs, and more than 14 Million Square Feet of Commercial Development

Grants awarded to 13 Regional Transit Authorities to provide year-round, fare free service in communities across Massachusetts 

Historic investments in free community college fueled double digit percentage enrollment increase this year, reversing over a decade of declines and Public four-year colleges see first enrollment increase since 2013

Director Tom Glynn to step down November 1

Healey-Driscoll Administration releases recommendations centered on recruitment, admissions, enrollment policies and support for historically underserved and underrepresented students

Agreement expected to provide discounts of up to 25 percent on gas and 42 percent on electric bills

Massachusetts Life Science Center Incentives expected to create 1,155 new life sciences jobs; Since MLSC’s inception, Tax Incentive Program has helped create over 18,000 jobs