GOVERNMENT & POLITICS

UMass Amherst poll shows Healey would win again if the election were today. It also shows Mike Kennealy leading the Republican contenders for the job.

U.S. Representative Richard Neal, D-Springfield, says he will be voting against a plan to reopen the federal government. The plan offers no guarantees of funding being restored for subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. That's something most Democrats had been holding out for.

The fallout from the federal government shutdown continues to chip away at federal funding for safety net programs designed to aid low-income Mass. residents.

On Wednesday, city councilor Tracye Whitfield announced she had the votes to become its president for the next term. But, a colleague, Melvin Edwards, is calling that declaration into question.

We learn about the Black history of millinery in Amherst with milliner Anika Lopes of Ancestral Bridges, discuss film fashion with costume designer Mona May and check in with Rep. Jim McGovern.

Today on The Rundown, panelists breakdown Tuesday’s elections throughout western Massachusetts, which largely favored incumbents in contested races.

After a contentious campaign, a ballot question, which would have overturned the city council's decision to develop the land, failed.

On, Wednesday, oral arguments were heard before the Supreme Court on whether President Donald Trump is exceeding his authority as he has continued to issue trade tariffs using emergency powers. Springfield U.S. Representative Richard Neal, a Democrat, believes that is the case.

A downtown Northampton, Mass. organization, has made raking leaves an annual election day event.

Standing among a crowd of supporters at the local Italian-American social club, Reichelt said said he was re-elected because he followed through on his vision and plan to make West Springfield a better place to live.