AMHERST — An electricity supply price change will go into effect starting on Nov. 1 for the Northampton, Amherst and Pelham participants in Valley Green Energy, the regional group electricity buying ...

On Thursday Oct. 8, Smith Vocational students gathered in their gym for their first pep rally of the school year. Athletic director Anthony Sabonis took time to celebrate the success of its fall ...

AMHERST — A request for proposals for a pay-as-you-throw system to collect trash and recyclables, and possibly compost, at the curb of just over 5,000 Amherst homes could mean the end of household ...

Kitty Holfield and Michael Henderson, the organizers of Fox and Ember Fantasy Ball, in Childs Park. CAROL LOLLIS / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each ...

Library Director Candace Bradbury-Carlin speaks at the Tilton Library grand opening celebration in South Deerfield on Thursday, Oct. 8. Credit: PAUL FRANZ / Staff Photo Award-winning coverage on ...

SPRINGFIELD — As a bill that would make Massachusetts the first state in the country to adopt a single-payer healthcare system makes its way through the Legislature, activists are urging Baystate ...

I’ve spent 20 years around sports and sometimes I still find myself questioning whether a particular experience is actually best for my own children. Youth sports have become complicated. There are ...

One of the last pieces made by Richard Richardson, called Father Time, with the help of Alan Horwitz, is shown at Three Sisters Sanctuary. CAROL LOLLIS / Staff Photo Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Setting: A large room, bare except for gaudily framed photos of President Trump lining ...

HADLEY — Three options for improving the heating and cooling system at Hopkins Academy, each of which would cost the town at least $6 million, will not be considered by voters until annual Town ...

Massachusetts is now one of the most expensive states in the nation in which to own a home, with a median housing price close to $700,000. We have this problem, in part, because of minimum-lot-size ...

EASTHAMPTON — Demolition of several century-old mill structures on Ferry Street is expected to begin within weeks, even as crews work to determine what caused a large sinkhole that opened in the ...