Mike Fenton

      The City Council in Springfield, Massachusetts will be on the clock during meetings this year.

      The air quality in the Springfield, Massachusetts area is being monitored as a fire continues to burn at a landfill.

    The redevelopment of an historic block in the largest city in western Massachusetts has moved a step closer. 

A complex and expensive urban renewal project that has confounded developers for decades in the largest city in western Massachusetts may be close to becoming reality.

The mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts said the city will refuse any additional refugees for resettlement.  It puts him at odds, again, with the City Council on an immigration issue. 

  A $ 1 million improvement plan has been unveiled for an urban park in western Massachusetts.

        The city of Springfield, Massachusetts is paying a sizable sum of money to settle a police brutality complaint as debate continues over increasing civilian oversight of the troubled police department. 

     Casino regulators in Massachusetts are allowing MGM more time to develop the housing that is to accompany the Las Vegas company’s gambling resort in Springfield.

    A moratorium on marijuana stores in the largest city in western Massachusetts has been extended until the end of November. 

   The first resort casino in Massachusetts, scheduled to open this summer in Springfield, wants to serve alcohol into the wee hours of the morning.  The state’s restaurant industry opposes a later “last call” at the casino.  

    The largest city in western Massachusetts has a new budget in place for the fiscal year that begins July 1st.  After years of stress over deficits, layoffs, and service cuts this budget season was a relative breeze.