DEMOGRAPHICS

This week, six weeks into the new Legislative session in Massachusetts, state senators are planning to consider setting the rules to govern the two-year session.

Saying it's more affordable and easily accessible from major roads, Simmons University in Boston has relocated the western Massachusetts campus of its highly ranked graduate program in library science, from Mount Holyoke College to Greenfield Community College.

The North Adams Regional Hospital just received a federal designation as a "Critical Access Hospital" that helps pay for medical care in sparsely-populated rural areas.

A new hospital opened in North Adams Thursday, ten years to the day that the former regional hospital shut down, declaring bankruptcy.

Berkshire Health Systems says — pending approval from regulators — it plans to reopen its North Adams hospital for inpatient care. On just a few days' notice, the facility closed in 2014 after a former operator, Northern Berkshire Healthcare, encountered financial problems.

Less than two weeks after Election Day, Joshua Garcia was sworn in as mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts. He’ll finish out the term of former Mayor Alex…

For the first time in a decade, residents of Holyoke, Massachusetts, will pick a new mayor this Election Day. The race is between former business owner…

How did the pandemic change crime and punishment for Connecticut youth?

Hampden County continues to have the highest daily rate of COVID-19 infections of any county in Massachusetts. However new state figures show modest…

Updated 9:30 a.m.State Auditor Suzanne Bump is calling for increased funding for western Massachusetts communities. She made her case in a report she…