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A cashier at College Convenience on Huntington Avenue pulls a scratch ticket from the lottery ticket display to sell to customer. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

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Mass. Lottery Scratches Its Way Back To Profitability

After navigating through the initial disruptions of the pandemic earlier this year, September sales results show the Massachusetts Lottery has righted the ship, though its second most popular product is losing ground.

The Massachusetts State House in Boston on July 16, 2020. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Baker Signs Bill To Deliver Unemployment Benefits To Low-Wage Residents

Oct 27, 2020

Gov. Charlie Baker speaks at the podium during a press conference on a visit to Suffolk Downs Drive-Through Testing Site in Revere, MA during the COVID-19 pandemic on Oct. 20, 2020. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

State Launching $115M Program to Boost Small Businesses

Oct 22, 2020

After months of searching, Jennifer Brogan managed to lock down a two-bedroom house in Centerville, but ended up going $30,000 over her budget. (Courtesy Jennifer Brogan)

Spurred By Pandemic, Buyers Scoop Up Homes And Mass. Prices Climb Higher

05:03Oct 20, 2020

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Logan International Airport. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Steep Drop In Air Traffic May Mean Painful Cuts At Massport

Oct 16, 2020

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'Here & Now' Co-Host Jeremy Hobson Will Leave WBUR

Oct 9, 2020

Despite gains in total employment in the past two months, the Massachusetts labor force is shrinking, raising concerns about workers who have given up on finding employment amid the COVID recession. (Chris Lisinski/SHNS)

Data Shows Many In Mass. Have Left The Workforce

Oct 9, 2020

Signs and railings are set up to create one way lanes on and off the beach to maintain social distancing at Nauset Beach in Orleans. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Cape Revenues Show Beachgoing’s Popularity In Pandemic

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The 2018 Columbia Gas disaster in the Merrimack Valley displaced thousands of people and damaged homes such as this one on Jefferson Street in Lawrence. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

$56M Explosions Settlement Between Columbia Gas, Massachusetts Approved

The settlement with Columbia Gas of Massachusetts and its parent, NiSource, was agreed to in July and approved Wednesday, the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs announced in...

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The Suffolk Downs race track in East Boston is set to be redeveloped into a new neighborhood by HYM Investment Group. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

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August marked the second month in a row that transactions and median sale prices both rose notably after a "lackluster second quarter due to COVID-19 and the resulting lockdown."

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