Smoking products are the likely cause of a fire Tuesday that razed a single-family home at 592 Main Road and shut down Route 143 for the majority of the day. Fire departments from across Hampshire ...

A Smith College professor emerita who taught at the institution for 56 years died Tuesday as the result of a house fire on Fort Hill Terrace. The fire was first reported at around 9:20 p.m. at 29 Fort ...

An annual event in which residents light up the town with candles and other festive light displays in their yards takes place Saturday. The Luminarium activities begin at 4:30 p.m. with an hourlong ...

NORTHAMPTON — Three years after acquiring the former First Baptist Church downtown for $3 million — a move that drew criticism from some residents — Mayor Gina-Louise Sciarra says that plans to ...

Winter arrived early this year, and unlike such occasions in the past decade, she has decided to stay. The temperatures have been consistently below freezing since Thanksgiving and it has actually ...

A new report in the works analyzing the city’s rental market is confirming what many renters already experience — that rising rents are pushing more and more people into spending more on housing than ...

Grace Episcopal to hold Messiah community sing The Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst will host a G.F. Handel Messiah community sing to benefit the Sidney F. Smith Toy Fund this Sunday, Dec. 21, at 5 p ...

A person of interest was in custody Sunday after a shooting during final exams at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, though key questions remained unanswered nearly 24 ...

Nine weeks after Gov. Maura Healey requested a review, the Department of Public Utilities on Monday opened an investigation of all delivery charges on electric and gas bills in Massachusetts. The ...

AMHERST Jorge Gomez and Ginette Gomez to Sefnuon Noeun and Sopheap Noeun, 40 Farmington Road, $415,000 Jane Wilson to Amy P.

The puck has dropped on the high school hockey season and Amherst and Easthampton, Hampshire County’s only two boys squads, kicked off the 2025-26 campaign by facing off against each other last ...