Oakland
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is seeking adopters for more than 60 chinchillas who were rescued from a commercial breeding facility in Ohio.
Voters in California, Hawaii and Rhode Island gave the go-ahead last week for bond measures aimed at boosting the housing supply and homeownership. But a California measure to cut back on the state’s decades-old environmental law to spur housing development and a Massachusetts proposal to loosen minimum lot-size rules both failed.