WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS

We learn about the 5th annual Odenong Powwow in Amherst and talk eponyms with the Word Nerd.

Drafts of the next Massachusetts budget have cleared the House and Senate. They now move to a six-person conference committee, which must come up with a single approach.

A federal judge in Boston Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the U.S. Department of Education and ordered employees who were fired in mass layoffs to be re-instated. Easthampton was among the plaintiffs.

Police and the district attorney in Franklin County turn property seized in a cannabis bust into millions in revenue; how are they spending it?

City officials say they have appealed the Trump administration's cancellation of a $20 million grant that was already in the works - and are also seeking legal representation in court

We talk to folks from the Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee and visit Plainvill Farm for asparagus season.

Berkshire Eagle reporter Heather Bellow found the majority of nursing homes in the Berkshires fed each resident for less than $10 a day.

We talk to Jazz à la Mode host and Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski about the 100th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee and learn about little red dots with Mr. Universe.

We hear live music from Cheap City, learn about the documentary, "Secret Mall Apartment," and try wine at Tip Top Wine Shop.

More than four months into the Legislative session, lawmakers on Beacon Hill have not agreed on a rules package, and that's beginning to affect western Mass. residents.