Deerfield officials discuss budget overrides to fund South County Senior Center and EMS increases. Rising health insurance costs contribute to the tough budget year.

Closing out the Daily Hampshire Gazette’s All-Stars schedule is boys and girls basketball. The Gazette sports staff deliberated selections carefully, using team success as a deciding factor at times, ...

The City Council this week voted down an order that would have required Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra to answer eight ...

Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra announced a 6.79% increase to the Northampton Public Schools (NPS) Fiscal Year 2027 budget in a written statement released Friday afternoon. The mayor's $46,599,217 level ...

New England Public Media’s president is calling a federal judge’s ruling this week against President Donald Trump’s attempt to cut funding for public broadcasting a win for free speech. “This is a ...

More than three decades after his 1971 return to the United States from serving in the Vietnam War, Lidon Chevannes found himself in a homeless shelter in Connecticut. Within a year of moving to ...

The Belchertown boys volleyball team overwhelmed Holyoke, 3-0, in a South league showdown on Thursday. The Orioles won each set by seven points or more, with set scores finishing out to 25-18, 25-10, ...

SHUTESBURY — Shutesbury officials are continuing to take corrective action following the recent release of fuel oil from an oil tank in a fuel pump vault outside Shutesbury Elementary School. Town ...

Highly anticipated transfer quarterback William “Pop” Watson met with the media after the UMass football team’s spring practice on Thursday morning, his first time since returning home after three ...

Passover in the Jewish community is a family affair — an annual spring festival that draws loved ones around the table at sunset. In unison with Jews across the world, some 30 Smith College students ...

From Warhead Sour Tongue Rollers to Toxic Waste Slime Lickers, and more traditional Airheads and Sour Patch Kids, canisters lining shelves at Outline Sour Candy feature dozens of kinds of tangy ...

Former North Adams Mayor Thomas Bernard has been named Williamsburg’s next town administrator. Following a unanimous Select Board vote on Tuesday, Bernard emerged from a field of 18 candidates to lead ...