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As with most of the WAMC listening area, Western Massachusetts is digging out from this weekend’s snow storm. As WAMC reports, the commonwealth’s westernmost county is hard at work beating back heavy accumulation- from its largest community to its smallest.

Public health officials in Berkshire County say a vicious flu season across the commonwealth is hitting Western Massachusetts particularly hard.

A nonprofit in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is celebrating almost half a century of serving as a pipeline for vital equipment donations to a community in rural Honduras.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Peter Marchetti delivered his second annual State of the City address at the municipal governmental organization ceremony in City Hall this morning.

One of Berkshire County’s biggest stories of 2025 concerns a proposed camping ban for the region’s urban hub of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. As WAMC reports, the debate over how to address unhoused community members remains unresolved heading into 2026.

The ribbon has been cut and the doors are opening at a long-awaited new housing resource center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

A mass shooting at a Hannukah event in Sydney, Australia, has sent ripples of fear, loss, and hopelessness across the larger Jewish world at the start of the week-long holiday — reaching community members in Berkshire County.

An interview with City Council Vice President Earl Persip.

The district attorneys of Bennington County in Vermont and Berkshire County in Massachusetts have announced the closure of kidnapping and murder cases that date back to the 1980s.

Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is investing $1 million to expand the city’s tech-industry incubator known as the Berkshire Innovation Center.