MASSACHUSETTS

Get a preview the music at Saturday's Easthampton Porchfest, explore children's picture books in a new light with The Carle After Dark, and learn why it took 22 years for Merriam Webster to update the dictionary.

Shannon O'Brien, who won a legal battle to overturn her dismissal as the chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, ran her first meeting Wednesday since returning to the agency.

The owners of Kosinski's Farm Stand in Westfield tell their unusual love story, live music from Sally Baby's Silver Dollars and a play that reveals the realities of being refused abortions at the Shea.

We talk to doctors at the Hilltown Community Heath Center, preview the Festival of the Hills in Conway and learn about the Trappist System from Mr. Universe.

The results are "sobering" but "not insurmountable," Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Martinez said Monday the day the results of the educational assessment test scores were released.

The Justice Department is ramping up its efforts to root out health care fraud, expanding a regional strike force into Boston.

The welcoming alliance for refugee ministry or WARM welcoming center provides housing, English classes, and health care for new arrivals.

On The Rundown with Carrie Saldo, panelists discuss the state of freedom of speech in western Mass., where $2.5 million in state funds went, and the impacts of a potential federal government shutdown.

We preview a new play about the long lasting effects of slavery, explore the untapped legacies of the slave trade in Caribbean, Central and South America and get our political questions answered by Rep. Jim McGovern.

The list of Massachusetts colleges and universities offering free tuition — to qualifying students — is growing. Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley announced this month it would do this for any U.S. family with an income of up to $150,000.