AMHERST — Initial projections for the fiscal 2028 budget indicate that spending increases may need to be more limited than in recent years. In a financial indicators presentation to town, school and ...

EASTHAMPTON — The city is searching for new leaders of its Parks and Recreation and Building departments after Parks and Recreation Director John Mason resigned to take a job in the Berkshires and ...

HOLYOKE — A 43-year-old man was arrested early Friday and expected to be charged with attempted murder and multiple fire-related crimes in connection with six outdoor fires set around the city over ...

WESTFIELD — Inclusivity, high performance, and curiosity. Those are the three tenets of Amherst girls cross country’s “culture triangle”. As the Hurricanes raised their fifth straight Western Mass.

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AMHERST — A 19-year-old member of the unregistered University of Massachusetts Amherst Theta Chi fraternity is facing a felony charge of strangulation and a misdemeanor assault and battery charge ...

SOUTHAMPTON — A parent reported to police Monday that she found an antisemitic sticker in her child’s candy bag after trick-or-treating in town on Halloween. Southampton Police Chief Ian Illingsworth ...

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council is supporting an effort to make it easier for those who wish to build a two-family home in Northampton. Councilors last week voted unanimously to refer a proposed zoning ...

HADLEY — A $224,855 semiquincentennial federal grant will provide support for the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation’s ongoing rehabilitation of a 1752 house known as Forty Acres. The museum, at 130 ...

Stacey Jenkins, back right, principal at Anne T. Dunphy Elementary School in Williamsburg, discusses ways her school has reduced the amount of time students have missed school since the pandemic with ...

UMass football head coach Joe Harasymiak announced during a press conference on Friday that wide receiver Dallas Elliott will miss the remainder of the season after being diagnosed with “a rare form ...

Northampton is about to make a costly decision that cannot be undone: tearing down the E.J. Gare Parking Garage. Before the city commits, I urge the mayor and City Council to take a harder look at ...