The Senate’s poised to pass a $3.64 billion borrowing bill that would pump state funding into various long-range ...

The Massachusetts legislature advanced a sweeping environmental bond bill April 8 that includes a provision to ban single-use plastic bags and charge a fee for paper bags at stores across the state.

At Sprouts, Ralphs, and Pavilions, checkout lines moved without the usage of familiar bagging of thick plastic “reusable” bags — the kind the state now says were rarely reused at all. Some shoppers ...