WAMC's award-winning daily news magazine brings listeners the latest in local, national, and world news. Join Lucas Willard each weekday for the latest. Samantha Simmons hosts the weekend edition. The work of the WAMC News team is complemented each day with news and features from the BBC and Stardate. Midday Magazine also offers a comprehensive regional weather summary and a range of commentators who span the political spectrum. Highlights from the WAMC Listener Comment Line are usually aired on Friday's edition of Midday Magazine.
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When people say, “Think outside the box,” the box I picture is Bisquick.That’s a popular baking mix, of course, and it’s also what General Mills used to call the biscuits you could make with it. -
NewsChannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Tuesday, December 23, 2025. -
Lake Placid musician and storyteller Julie Robards was a children’s entertainer at Santa’s Workshop in Wilmington for 11 years. She says her tales for children, along with the region’s Olympic heritage, germinated the idea to write “The Reindeer Games: How Santa’s Reindeer Got Their Names.” -
Berkshire County’s largest health care provider and employer has opened an urgent care center in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The new facility helps fill in the rural region's health care coverage gaps. -
The ribbon has been cut and the doors are opening at a long-awaited new housing resource center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. -
I am a secret fan of aphorisms – those pithy observations that contain a general truth, like, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and, “Actions speak louder than words.”
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NewsChannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Monday, December 22, 2025.
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Federal PFAS limits were put into place for the first time during the Biden administration. Current federal limits are 4 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS, while New York’s are much higher at 10 parts per trillion. -
One of my holiday rituals is to visit Myers of Keswick for stocking stuffers. The Greenwich Village store is filled with British specialty items. No nonsense Frank Cooper’s orange marmalade. -
With the calendar year wrapping up and Governor Kathy Hochul filtering through hundreds of bills, let’s take a look back at some of the biggest issues that New York State politics faced this year.
