Jim Kinney

Last week, sewage plants in Massachusetts released 17.5 million gallons of combined sewage overflows, including 13.5 million gallons alone from the Springfield Water and Sewer Commission’s Bondi’s Island plant.

MassDEP issued a notice of noncompliance to the Charlton facility a year ago in July 2025, and the state agency says modifications might help.

U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal faces Jeromie Whalen in the Sept. 1 Democratic primary.

The Quabbin Reservoir is more than 10 feet below normal at the spillway.

For the last 40 years, a growing share of people age 65 and older work, either because they want to or because they need to, according to figures kept by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Springfield Water and Sewer Commission also addressed fresh concerns Wednesday over sewer overflows just one week after human waste and trash, including diapers, condoms and tampons, washed up at an Agawam yacht basin.

The remaining 64 CRRC workers still laid off will return in September.

AMHERST — Flooding from the rainstorm has closed the ground floor of Mass General Brigham Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s Amherst Community Health Center, loca

The eight-year-old casino was built with fewer performance spaces than other casinos, with the idea to drive visitors to downtown venues.

The studio apartments represent “the difference between surviving and belonging”