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Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz has a plan to save the city some money, and to help close a $2.4 million budget gap. Na...
A bit of health care sticker shock for Greenfield this week. Town Finance Director Lane Kelly says starting March 1st, the to...
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission says it will deny a request from community colleges to have the exclusive right to train ...
The state is out with a mixed jobs report showing Massachusetts gained 5,100 jobs in September, even as the unemployment rate...
Stagehands and the Iron Horse Entertainment Group are at loggerheads. The workers say owner Eric Suher pays them 40 percent l...
A divided Northampton City Council has given the mayor authority to make changes in health insurance benefits offered to its ...
Nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield are on strike today after failing to reach a deal with management We...
Unionized nurses have failed to reach an agreement with Baystate Health Systems and will strike Friday. The strike by nurses ...
Northampton is one city council vote away from green-lighting a process that could end up changing the city's health insu...
Nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center will call for a one-day strike against their hospital by the end of the week. The ...
The owners of a Western Mass. bean sprout farm are in hot water again. This time, for allegedly housing workers in substandar...
Northampton's City Council and School Committee have both violated the state's Open Meeting Law. That's according...
Low-paid human service workers will take a hit this year because of a line-item veto by Governor Patrick. The $20 million...
The Transgender Equal Rights Bill is now in effect in Massachusetts. The law adds gender identity as a protected category und...
The Massachusetts unemployment rate is at its lowest level in more than three years. The Executive Office of Labor and Workfo...
There's a new policy in plce in Northampton against city employees borrowing municipal property. The policy was put into ...
A new contract is in place between the city of Easthampton and the Emily Williston Library Board. Officials say the contract ...
Two Northampton DPW workers have been placed on paid administrative leave, but city officials aren't saying why. Public W...
The Linden Hill School in Northfield is closing its doors for good at the end of the school year. The private boarding school...
Northampton firefighters are calling for the resignation of Fire Chief Brian Duggan, saying morale has suffered under his lea...
The unemployment rate continues to fall in Massachusetts. The state reports the jobless rate was 6.5 percent in March, down f...
More people have health insurance in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the nation. That's according to Governor Patrick...
Greenfield's Social Security office may be closed, but the town is still fighting for it. The Greenfield Human Rights Com...
Northampton firefighters are in a battle with the city over a wage freeze. Union President Michael Hatch says former Mayor Cl...
The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts in Hatfield has received a couple of major donations from local businesses. Blue Cross...
Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton has reached a new contract deal with its 300 nurses. The three-year pact, negotiated...
Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz is clamping down on spending and hiring to avoid a financial crisis. Narkewicz has sent a s...
Two local teachers are taking part in a lawsuit filed by the state's largest teachers' union to stop a proposed ballo...
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