With Question 7’s fate still undecided statewide, voters in the Pioneer Valley have already drawn their lines. Amherst, Northampton and Easthampton backed the measure to allow smaller residential lots ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael DeChiara, a member of the Energy and Climate Action Committee in Shutesbury, during a public listening session on energy facility hosted by the Healey-Driscoll administration in the Shutesbury ...

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 ...

Should Massachusetts ditch party-specific primaries? Local Democrats and Republicans say “no.” When voters head to the polls on Tuesday, they’ll be asked to consider getting rid of the current primary ...

Shayne Moynahan scored in the first overtime to send the Hampshire girls soccer team to the Western Mass. Class B final following its 1-0 win over Ludlow. The second-seeded Raiders were deadlocked ...

Dr. Kate Atkinson, pictured in 2016, has left the Amherst and Northampton family practice she ran for more than two decades, a year and a half after selling it to keep it out of bankruptcy. CAROL ...

AMHERST — Calling continued delay “ridiculous,” a town safety committee is renewing a call for the Town Council to move forward on a plan to create a Resident Oversight Board to independently ...