Charlie Baker

Members of the public can finally get a look at the $29,000 oil-on-canvas memorialization of Gov. Charlie Baker’s eight years in the corner office. Baker’s official portrait, unveiled at a private soiree Dec. 21 in the Massachusetts State House library, was up on the wall this week in the lobby of the executive suite for all to see. With display…

Dozens of former Baker administration officials and staffers streamed into the Massachusetts State Library around 5 p.m. for the former governor’s portrait unveiling as the State House shuttered to the public. Reporters were asked to leave the fourth floor of the library at around 4:48 p.m., as Baker’s portrait, shrouded in a blue covering, was perched near a podium...

Citing a Baker administration “accounting error,” members of the state’s Congressional delegation called Tuesday on federal labor officials to work with the Healey administration on a solution to the “over withdrawal” of $2.5 billion in federal funds to pay unemployment benefits during the pandemic. In a letter released Wednesday, nine delegation members asserted “many states have encountered issues” administering federal…

Andrew Baker, the son of former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker was arrested last night for drunk driving, according to Essex County’s District Attorney’s office. Baker, a 29-year-old resident of South Boston was followed by Peabody police onto Route 114 after police received reports from another driver of a Volkswagen Jetta driving erratically. Peabody police stopped Baker on Route 95 South,…

Massachusetts’ remaining state-run COVID test sites are closing by the end of the month, the Department of Public Health confirmed Tuesday.

As Charlie Baker takes over as NCAA president, he brings a different way of thinking about one of the more important and most polarizing issues in college athletics: Regulating how college athletes monetize their fame. To Baker, athletes such as quarterback recruit Jaden Rashada and Miami basketball players Hanna and Haley Cavinder are consumers who need help in a burgeoning…

Marty Walsh, the U.S. secretary of labor and former mayor of Boston, is set to leave the Biden administration to be the next head of the NHL players union, a source familiar with the matter tells NBC News. A former union member, Walsh has been the country’s top labor official for nearly two years, and he served two terms...