Massachusetts’ building codes governing handicapped accessibility are hampering renovations of old housing stock that could ...

The Massachusetts State House. The Department of Energy Resources updated the Massachusetts building energy code in order to reach net-zero carbon by 2050. BRIAN SONG/DFP FILE The Department of Energy ...

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Massachusetts was granted federal assistance to help with recovery efforts related to a series of nor'easters that slammed the state in March. With two consecutive nor'easters pummeling the East Coast ...

As Massachusetts leaders keep searching for solutions to the housing crunch, a top academic institution is pointing to the role the state’s building codes play in restricting multifamily development.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a landmark climate bill into law Friday after months of back-and-forth debates with legislative leaders. The climate bill overhauls the 2008 Global Warming ...

Brookline and Watertown last week became the first communities in the state to adopt a new building code discouraging the use of fossil fuels in new buildings, and 22 more cities and towns have ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

A former city building inspector has been ripped by the State Ethics Commission, which called him out for an “egregious misuse” of his public position when he changed the status of his own building ...