Reasons Why Massachusetts Is the Best Place To Retire There is no shortage of famous and incredibly talented writers who hail from Massachusetts, or at least spent a good deal of time there and used ...

Amherst storyteller, educator, and author Onawumi Jean Moss was recently honored at the State House in Boston as part of the ...

Several generations of a Black and Afro-Indigenous family from Amherst, Massachusetts, have been archiving photos and artifacts, connected to how and where they and others lived in the town hundreds ...

An executive order issued by Town Manager Paul Bockelman is spelling out actions police officers and other municipal employees can take during federal immigration enforcement actions, aimed at ...

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts college town that established one of the nation’s first reparation funds for Black residents is considering spending the proceeds of the $2 million endowment on youth ...

AMHERST — Representatives from the union for Amherst Department of Public Works employees say their public advocacy in recent weeks for a new contract and improved working conditions is yielding ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – The Town of Amherst has been designated as a Housing Choice Community by the Healey-Driscoll Administration. The Housing Choice Community designation was given by the Executive ...

The western Massachusetts town of Amherst has a lot to offer – and it’s just a two-hour drive west of Boston. For hiking trails with spectacular views, check out Holyoke Range State Park, which has a ...

FILE - Inside the Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts. It took years of planning, a referendum and several city council votes that almost iced it, but the Jones Library renovation project is ...

Amherst, Massachusetts residents got a chance to meet the two finalists for the open police chief role on Tuesday, as well as ask a number of questions. Nearly a year after the retirement of Police ...

For the second year in a row, the UMass Minutemen hockey team will advance to the Hockey East semifinals ...

A main sign for the new Amethyst Brook Elementary School could be mostly purple, with white lettering, even though purple in town is often associated with Amherst College. Tim Cooper, principal at ...