The Selectboard has voted to draft a Home Rule Petition to seek five additional beer and wine licenses, which, if approved, would go to the state Legislature for consideration.

Massachusetts is accelerating the push for solar energy by introducing new regulations for large-scale solar arrays, which ...

It’s cold outside, the kind of cold that makes you want to close the slider in back when you step out to fetch a few logs but your bare hand sticks to the door handle. Just a little bit, enough that ...

Years ago, I was driving over La Veta Pass in southern Colorado, a lovely stretch that divides the eastern plains from the Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) Mountain range that extends down into New ...

Ronald P. Mitchell III was sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to one count of armed robbery and two counts of kidnapping, with the judge citing his cooperation with the ...

If I’d known how fulfilling grandchildren were, I’d have skipped having children. It’s meant to capture the sweetness of grandparenting — the joy without the grind. But thousands of grandparents in ...

Opera singer Perry Brisbon presented a musical timeline of the "American sound" at Greenfield Community College on Friday, starting with spirituals and progressing through ragtime, blues, jazz, soul, ...

The Master Plan Committee met to review feedback from the first public meeting for the town's master plan update and discuss how that will guide the next phase of the process, with goals related to ...

Members of Franklin County snowmobile clubs are supporting the $2.9 billion environmental bond bill, which would provide funding for the state Department of Conservation and Recreation to maintain ...

The maple sap runs have become closer to a jog in recent years. During the late winter and early spring months in western Massachusetts, the sap in maple trees freezes and thaws just enough to move ...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has proposed the ICE Accountability Act, which would create an independent watchdog to enforce reforms at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border ...