Scalding summer days mean keeping air conditioners cranked up, but also mean utility customers' electric bills are rising faster than the temperature outside.

For the fourth consecutive month, sales were down at the Massachusetts Lottery in May. Executive Director Mark William Bracken told the Lottery Commission on Tuesday that the agency sold $572.7 ...

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday announced that she is appointing Eric Paley as secretary of the Executive Office of Economic Development.