State Senator Paul Mark

Rising healthcare costs are one of the biggest challenges facing Massachusetts communities. As WAMC reports, weight loss drugs are fueling sweeping increases across the commonwealth.

Western Massachusetts legislators are reacting to Gov. Maura Healey's call to spend an additional $100 million on public education in the commonwealth this fiscal year.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has signed the state legislature’s $63.4 billion budget for fiscal year 2027 into law. WAMC spoke with lawmakers about what the spending means for Western Massachusetts.

Following reporting by WAMC News, the attorney general of Massachusetts is calling on two propane companies to “immediately remedy” delivery issues that left customers without heating fuel.

In the depths of a frigid winter, communities in the snowy hills of Western Massachusetts are struggling with heating fuel access issues that local leaders are describing as disastrous and an emergency.

As Governor Maura Healey prepares to deliver her state of the commonwealth address tonight, Western Massachusetts legislators are laying out their hopes and expectations.

A decade ago, voters in Massachusetts approved the legalization of recreational marijuana sales and cultivation, spurring a $1.65 billion industry. Now, a measure on the ballot this November could repeal that legalization. But, as WAMC reports, the tactics of the group behind the ballot initiative have been called into question.

With federal funding cuts threatening one of the key sectors of the Western Massachusetts economy, a legislator is taking action to ensure the state is prepared to support it.

Western Massachusetts legislators say they back Governor Maura Healey’s move to ensure commonwealth residents will have access to vaccines regardless of changing federal policy.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey announced Tuesday that her administration is cutting environmental regulations to speed up housing production in the commonwealth.