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Gov. Maura Healey declared a “state of energy emergency” on Monday as she announced increased home heating assistance for tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents in the midst of rising oil costs ...

Pioneer Valley Workers Center Executive Director Claudia Rosales talks to a farm worker about the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network phone number hotline during a visit to a farm in the Pioneer Valley, ...

GREENFIELD — Questions about the cost impact of a new $236.6 million Franklin County Technical School building amid a difficult economy blended with comments urging support for the school’s future ...

ATHOL – At a recent Select Board meeting, Planning and Development Director Eric Smith provided an update on the ongoing development of the Rabbit Run Rail Trail. The trail, once completed, would run ...

BOSTON — Customers kept on hold, delayed benefit payments and mismanaged complaints are some of the issues the state auditor discovered in an audit of the Department of Unemployment Assistance that ...

Contrary to what we know, Napoleon’s final moment didn’t come at Waterloo; it came in Moscow, Russia, a year before. Hitler’s end didn’t come when he killed himself in the Berlin bunker; it came three ...

Sandwich, MA – Barbara Mae Ames, 94, of Sandwich, Massachusetts, passed away on April 13, 2026, at Cape Cod Hospital. She was the devoted wife of the late George H. Ames, who predeceased her in 1998.

The deaths of Diane Opper and Emma MacDonald, two local women allegedly killed by their husbands within a month of each other this spring, have brought renewed attention to domestic violence and the ...

EASTHAMPTON — Jeromie Whalen paced from side to side across the Easthampton High School auditorium stage on Monday night, dressed casually in a pink Pride shirt from the Massachusetts Teachers ...

MONTAGUE — Franklin County Technical School is getting ready to welcome back students and staff for what will mark the school’s 50th year, and the first in more than a decade with a new superintendent ...

When primary care physician Dr. Kate Atkinson goes to reunions, she’s usually met with this question from her peers: “Are you still practicing?” And to their surprise, she still is, despite intense ...