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A Berkshire state representative says a Pittsfield armored vehicle company that’s done the most business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Massachusetts during the second Trump administration should turn down any future work with the agency.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was in Pittsfield this week to announce a new round of state grants that will support the construction of 1,300 new homes across the commonwealth, including almost 50 in Berkshire County’s largest community.

Authorities have identified the victim in a fatal Pittsfield, Massachusetts, hit and run incident.

Last night, the Pittsfield City Council voted unanimously to abandon a controversial camping ban put forward last spring by Mayor Peter Marchetti. The move caps off almost a year of intense debate in Berkshire County's largest community over how the city should best address the needs of unhoused residents in the downtown.

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.