BOSTON — Less than a week after signing the new state budget, Gov. Maura Healey filed a supplemental budget on Wednesday seeking an extra $100 million for public schools. Her announcement comes amid a ...

ATHOL, MA – James A. Canning II, 89, formerly of Twitchell Street, died Wednesday morning, July 8, 2026 at Gardner Rehabilitation and Healthcare. Born in Orange on June 16, 1937, he was the son of ...

Select Board and Athol Royalston School Committee member Mitch Grosky reads a portion of the Declaration of Independence at a ceremony recognizing the 250th anniversary of the Declaration’s signing.

Second-seeded Pioneer defeated No. 7 Athol, 23-21, in the Franklin Tech Girls Summer League playoffs on Thursday in Turners Falls. Maggie Tsipenyuk scored nine points, with Ariana Perkins chipping in ...

There is a version of this Senate primary that appears in the TV ads Seth Moulton’s campaign has run over the past few months, and there is the version Massachusetts actually saw on Wednesday, July 8.

SOUTH HADLEY — A study spot. A movie theater. A cozy lounge area. A tutoring center. A classroom. One room at Mount Holyoke College’s Ciruti Language Center encompassed it all. The Language and ...

And now for something completely different. It was a beautiful Friday morning and my beautiful wife Susan was cleaning off our deck chairs in preparation for a morning of reading and coffee under our ...

BOSTON — Former Congressman Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out publicly as gay and a liberal bulldog who left his fingerprints on the nation’s banking regulations, died ...

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 ...

The state’s Sunday hunting ban is more than 200 years old, the administration said, and was rooted in the Puritanical blue laws that once governed Massachusetts. Only Massachusetts and Maine still ...

GREENFIELD — Local police officers, emergency medical services personnel and other first responders convened at Greenfield Community College last Thursday to discuss best practices for responding to a ...

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 ...