BUSINESS & ECONOMY

Baystate Health, which operates its flagship hospital in Springfield, is acquiring the city's other hospital, Mercy Medical Center.

A look at how lawmakers frame their funding, as Mass. plans for a $3-billion higher education infrastructure upgrade. At the same time towns are hitting tax limits, and rejecting override votes to raise taxes.

The small, liberal arts college in Amherst was founded in 1965 and has been facing financial pressures in recent years.

The annual event features over 50 arrangements on display with 60 florists and students participating.

Carrie Saldo and panelists discuss ballot initiatives to ban social media use among teens and recreational marijuana use, hurdles faced by a housing authority to open up affordable housing, nuclear arms production in Pittsfield and more.

Mass. Senate advances a $1.8B supplemental budget splitting surtax funds differently than the House, with less for the MBTA and more for regional aid. Lawmakers brace for clashes ahead of negotiations.

Panelists break down President Trump's address to the nation, a new bill to encourage more co-op business models, Mass. healthcare providers halting gender affirming care, and what gambling harm prevention looks like.

The plan is called 'Compass Rail', and residents will see the earliest project materialize around 2030, with the so-called Inland Route — or what officials are calling the first phase of West -East Rail — connecting Springfield to Worcester and Boston.

The shells, shipped from China, are used at CRRC's Springfield manufacturing facility to create subway cars for the MBTA. They had been impounded by the Department of Homeland Security this past summer, over concerns they had been made with forced labor.

The UMass Amherst poll, released on Monday, found respondents did not approve of President Donald Trump's handling of the war in Iran, immigration, inflation and tariffs.