REGIONAL NEWS

Enlace de Familias, a family resource center, has hosted Halloween festivities for Holyoke residents and local businesses, for the past three years.

BU Professor of finance Mark Williams says Massachusetts needs to adopt some longer-term strategies to soften the impact of Trump Administration funding cuts.

The federal government shutdown has lasted all of October. But, Springfield. U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D) believes there could soon be pressure on Congressional Republicans to begin talks to re-open the government.

The morning of May 8th, Rosanne Ferreira-De Oliveira, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Eureka Street in Worcester. It was just supposed to be a normal workday for her as a house cleaner.

Massachusetts Senate Democrats advanced a $2.3 billion spending bill Monday that withholds most of the funding that sheriffs have requested, echoing an approach the House took last week.

El primer foro es esta noche a partir de las 5:30 p.m. y brindará a los candidatos de todos los escaños del concejo municipal la oportunidad de reunirse con votantes.

The Massachusetts legislature continues to focus on balancing revenues destabilized by federal policy changes from the Federal tax and spending bill passed in July.

The first forum is tonight[Monday] beginning at 5:30 p.m. and will give candidates for all of the city council ward seats a chance to meet with voters.

Protestors across Western Massachusetts joined others across the state and the nation in "No Kings" rallies denouncing everything from ICE raids to cuts in food assistance benefits.

Health experts say vaccine skepticism has long been a feature of both islands, setting the stage for highly contagious diseases like measles to potentially find a foothold.