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Following two months of small declines over the summer, Berkshire County’s unemployment rate rose by just over half a percentage point in September. The jump from 7.8 percent in August to 8.4 percent last month is the biggest increase in...

Across the country, parents, milk processing plants, health experts and schools have been arguing about the benefits of the beverage after the dairy industry launched its "Raise Your Hand for Chocolate Milk" campaign. The campaign counters various efforts across the...

They stood shoulder-to-shoulder, one with his head down, the other with his left arm across his friend’s shoulders, one veteran helping another, listening in silence to the lonely, mournful sound of taps as it cut through the chill. When taps...

A half-decade ago, Jack Downing, president and CEO of Soldier On, was having a tough time getting dental care for the homeless veterans serviced by his organization. Trying to get dentists in Western Massachusetts to accept VA vouchers promising future...

The state’s public school education commissioner toured three city schools on Friday, where staff and students highlighted turnarounds on test scores and new learning initiatives. Mitchell Chester visited Conte Community and Reid Middle where students’ performances on state assessments...

A North Adams woman was sentenced to three to six years in state prison for selling a powerful opiate painkiller to a friend who overdosed and died shortly afterward. Dawn Cote, 44, of Liberty Street, North Adams, was found guilty...

Around this time last year, millions of registered voters were rocking the polls in the United States, due largely to an electric presidential election. Among the surging voting population were youth voters, those between the ages of 18 (the legal...