Voters rejected both the $9 million and the $11 million Proposition 2½ overrides at the polls on Tuesday, leaving South Hadley without a way to fill a $3 million gap in its fiscal year 2027 budget.

AMHERST — Hampshire College will close at the end of the calendar year, bringing to an end an institution that enrolled its first students in 1970. “This is an extremely painful, deeply sad day for ...

Energy safety advocates want senators to reject provisions of a sweeping House energy bill that clears the path for new ...

Whately residents will vote on a proposed zoning bylaw to regulate battery energy storage systems at the upcoming Annual Town Meeting.

AMHERST — Hampshire College will close at the end of the calendar year, bringing to an end an institution that began in 1970. Trustees this week voted to permanently shutter the campus following the ...

WESTHAMPTON — The Hampshire Regional girls lacrosse team battled through the rain to defeat Belchertown 11-8 on Monday night. After a back-and-forth first quarter that ended with the score tied 3-3, ...

Ten years is a long time to wait, especially in sports, and that’s exactly how long it’s been since the Hampshire Regional softball team last won a state championship. The Raiders have threatened ...

After setting 27 fires between 2007 and 2010 that terrorized neighborhoods in Ward 3 — one of which was responsible for killing an elderly man and his adult son — Anthony Baye, now 41, has been ...

Repeating the mantra that “food is medicine,” U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern is leading a bipartisan effort urging congressional appropriators to make healthy food and good nutrition a core pillar of the ...

A two-story home just east of North Leverett center was destroyed in a fire reported to Shelburne State Police dispatch at 11:16 p.m. Sunday, according to Leverett Fire Chief Michael Visniewski.

WORTHINGTON — Police Chief John Scobie’s new partner has been drooling on him. The newest member of Worthington’s police ...

On June 6, 1966, almost exactly two years before his assassination, Robert F. Kennedy gave what many consider his greatest speech at a university in South Africa, a nation still beset by the poison of ...