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The Massachusetts House budget makes $500 million available to cover emergency assistance shelter costs for FY'25. The House budget debate is set for Wednesday, April 24.
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Several members of the committee are standing with community members who have concerns over lack of transparency and community involvement in the superintendent search.
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Panelists discuss a defamation and discrimination lawsuit out of Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools, the future of psychedelics in Massachusetts, Springfield’s first Black police superintendent, and much more from the NEPM newsroom.
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Many western Massachusetts schools are finalizing their budgets and facing possible cuts of teachers, support staff.
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Merriam-Webster is poised to have greater influence over language decisions made by news reporters and editors across the country.
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People gathered across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine to experience the 2024 total solar eclipse, and they had great weather for it.
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A partial solar eclipse captured the attention of much of western Massachusetts on Monday, with generally clear skies and warm weather.
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As the region prepares for a total eclipse of the sun on April 8, many are billing it as a must-see, once-in-a-generation event. Hundreds of thousands are expected to travel to places in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine that are in the eclipse’s “path of totality,” where the moon will block the sun entirely for around three minutes.
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Many Massachusetts municipalities inked host community agreements with cannabis companies that included payment of an "impact" fee. By law that amount is capped at 3% of the gross sales of the marijuana business. Now some cannabis retailers are demanding refunds.
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The panel discusses the latest with criminal neglect charges at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, the move for local control of Holyoke public schools, and the denial of federal funds for local counties impacted by flooding and much more.