TRANSPORTATION

Population growth is important for a thriving community. A recent UMass Donahue Wayfinders report projected population declines in all four WMass counties between 2020 and 2035.

A Legislative budget hearing focused on the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Executive Office of Transportation and the Registry of Motor Vehicles will be held this week.

Gas prices are climbing slightly in Massachusetts due in part to the U.S. and Israel's strikes on Iran this weekend and a general rise in prices during this time in the season.

Chicopee is now the first school district in the state to have cameras installed on their school buses to ensure drivers adhere to the stop signs attached to the vehicles. officials said.

According to a survey by the auto club AAA Northeast, more than 900 million people flew last year. That’s less than one percent increase from 2024, but still a record.

Around western Massachusetts, the sound of snow blowers and shoveling were a constant on Monday. In the frigid cold at one household, roommates took turns digging out cars. It turns out, their is household of public transportation bus drivers - each with professional training to drive on weather days like these.

Lawmakers will peer into the future and guess how much tax revenue Massachusetts can reliably count on to support state spending beginning six months from now and running through June 2027.

The next deadline for state agencies to submit their report to MassDEP is March 1, 2026.

We discuss the divisions as rent control makes its way on the 2026 ballot, how decreased rail use in western Mass. could impact the east-west rail project and historical debates on the route of Henry Knox's artillery march.

Between Friday and Monday, many trains between New Haven, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts and further to the north, will be replaced with buses.