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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey signed an attachment to the fiscal year 2025 budget banning municipalities from taking the entire equity in a home in the event of a tax lien foreclosure, a practice detractors call “home equity theft.”The budget attachment,...

By EMILEE KLEIN

HOLYOKE — All children deserve the best and nothing less. That’s the message LaTasha Monroe, a hip-hop artist from Springfield who performs under the name Mz. Tash, celebrates in the theme song she wrote for Parent Villages, a Springfield grassroots...

By EMILY THURLOW

BOSTON — When 15-year-old Ollie Perrault found herself on the basketball court at the TD Garden, she seized an opportunity she’d never thought she’d have, and she took her shot.And though the Easthampton climate activist wasn’t trying to score any...

By LUIS FIELDMAN

NORTHAMPTON — Entertainment and property mogul Eric Suher is being ordered to pay more than $100,000 in restitution and penalties by the state attorney general’s office following a nearly two-year investigation that found his companies had violated...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

State Attorney General Maura Healey and advocates have called on lawmakers to approve a tuition recovery fund for students who incurred debt at for-profit education chains that engaged in unlawful practices or closed their doors, including one campus...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

A new public-private initiative could see drug education programs instituted at many of the state’s middle schools by next academic year.The program, dubbed “Project Here,” is a $2 million addiction-prevention and education initiative that state...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

EASTHAMPTON — The state attorney general’s office has launched an investigation after months of racial tensions at Easthampton High School.During an update on race-related incidents and the school district’s response, Superintendent Nancy Follansbee...