The latest defendant accused of defrauding the state's Medicaid program is fighting the fraud charges. But he’s also blaming any errors on years of shoddy recordkeeping on the part of brokers and vendors that handle scheduling, patient records, and billing for the state's Medicaid-covered rides.

Unfortunately, under Fall River’s current plans for the almost 1,500 homes slated for the site, bidders must defer to the city's "strong preference for market-rate housing as the development option for the Property."

Cannabis regulators are planning a sweeping overhaul of the state's marijuana industry while also advancing plans to let adults buy and use marijuana at the same establishment.

The first battery-powered trains will start running on the Fairmount Line more than a decade after MBTA overseers called for electrifying the system, and they’ll be eye-wateringly expensive. Is that just the price and pace of a transformative project?