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. 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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The Flock camera audit was part of a compromise reached by Troy's all-Democratic council and Republican Mayor Carmella Mantello after months of disagreement over how to proceed — if at all — with the city's contract with Flock, one of the nation’s largest providers of automated license plate readers. -
A series of shootings has rocked Pittsfield's Westside neighborhood this summer. As law enforcement in the Massachusetts city mounts a new effort to tamp down the gun violence, residents are uneasy, not knowing when to expect the next shots to be fired. -
As a Hudson Valley hospital begins the process of reducing its bed capacity, employees are worried about the future. -
The experience is something new, but new doesn’t mean bad; it just means it might be a little uncomfortable. -
NewsChannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026. -
A founding father in the world of modern sports broadcasting died this week.Bill Rasmussen was a co-founder of the "Entertainment and Sports Programming Network" — today known simply as ESPN. As WAMC reports, the sports director by trade solidified his legacy in Bristol, Connecticut, after his career featured stops in western Massachusetts. -
Those two objectives - presidential candor and presidential safety - ought not to be in conflict. We can have both.
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A recently released feasibility study outlines possible redevelopment of the former Clinton Community College campus at Bluff Point. -
NewsChannel 13 meteorologist Paul Caiano delivers the Midday Weather Summary for Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026.
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For the first time in history, charitable giving surpassed 600 billion dollars. But only a small fraction of that money ends up in rural America, places like upstate New York.
