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Mass. legislators succeed in fight to keep Leeds VA Medical Center open. The veterans hospital set to close in Leeds will now remain open, a great victory for local veterans and legislators. First big steps taken to address Roderick Ireland Courthouse health concerns. Updated: 6 hours ago. The Roderick Ireland...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - After a video showing a bulldozer destroying nearly 100 confiscated dirt bikes in New York City went viral last week, a viewer reached out to our Getting Answers team, asking why the same can’t be done here in Springfield. We brought our questions to elected...

A traffic stop in Enfield Monday morning led to drugs and cash being seized by police.

Editor’s note: The following column takes place sometime in the distant future. Not long ago, one of my great-great-grandchildren asked me, as the last remaining local who was alive at the time, how people reacted to the construction of Great Barrington’s first traffic roundabout in 2022. And while my blessed life of 105 years, and counting, has been filled with many otherwise memorable things that I’ve since forgotten, there was never a chance I wouldn’t remember every detail of The Great Roundabout War of 2022 to 2024. And that is not just because the story was memorialized in prolific local historian Bernard Drew’s six-volume, 1,700-page, detail-rich epic, “Rage and Roundabouts: The Battle of Routes 7, 23, and 41,” which became a popular film starring Tom Cruise and that featured Drew in a legendary, scene-stealing cameo filmed at Mason Library.

The Holyoke police chief and sheriff held a news conference to discuss substance abuse disorder in the city.

The Pittsfield Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man in the photos shared on social media.

Springfield firefighters were called to 401 Liberty Street for a two-car crash Monday afternoon.

Springfield Police are investigating a deadly shooting on Genesee Street that occurred Sunday evening.

A Massachusetts man who hit a police officer during the January 6, 2021 riot at the United States Capitol, and later bragged about it on social media, pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting a law enforcement officer.

Driving by the Connecticut river that runs through Springfield and Agawam, drivers may have noticed construction ramping up. It's called the River Crossing Project, and it aims to construct new water treatment pipes.

A man from Pittsfield pled Guilty to Assaulting Law Enforcement Officers on Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Massachusetts man faces the possibility of up to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers during the January 6h attack on the U.S. Capitol. Troy Sargent, 38, of Pittsfield, pleaded guilty Monday in the District of Columbia to all six...

Congressman Jim McGovern announced the VA Medical Center in Leeds will stay open Monday.

Rescue groups from across the Connecticut have stepped up after more than 150 cats were removed from a house in Winsted last week in what town officials call a massive animal hoarding case. But they said more help is still needed.

A Massachusetts man who hit a police officer during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and later wrote about it on social media, pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting a law enforcment officer. In a federal court in Washington, D.C., Troy Sargent, of Pittsfield, entered a guilty plea for...

Some people in Berkshire County have spent months traveling about 20 minutes to get to the nearest laundromat.

“I got two hits in on the same rookie cop …”. A Pittsfield man, who bragged on social media about hitting a “rookie cop,” pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting law enforcement officers during the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Troy Sargent, 38, pleaded guilty to all...

SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) - There was an increased police presence Sunday evening in the area of 89 Genesee Street in Springfield. When our Western Mass News crew first arrived around 7 p.m., several police cruisers and a medical response vehicle were on-scene, along with caution tape blocking off a house.