The Berkshire Eagle’s journalism earned 35 awards — including 11 first places — across a range of categories at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s Better Newspaper Competition held ...

From world-class museums to thriving nonprofits, the Northeast remains a national hub for the arts — but not every state in ...

TAUNTON — The Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation awarded a record $2,868,417 in grants in 2024. The bank ...

Amy Kelly offers updates on disability local news, resources, history, and culture. in the April edition of "A World of ...

Big Lots stores will reopen under new ownership more than seven months after the chain filed for bankruptcy.Discount retailer ...

Mass. officials want the Trump administration to reinstate $106 million in unspent COVID relief funds that local schools were ...

The home equity theft law supported by Sen Mark Montigny, D-New Bedford, since 2018 is facing a lobbying campaign to insert ...

The decline and eventual abolition of slavery has been portrayed as the result of tireless activism and moral persuasion by early Quaker advocates like Benjamin Lay who considered slavery one of the ...

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) — A New Bedford teen is in need of a new kidney after he was diagnosed with stage five chronic kidney disease. Michael Blechar-Melancon said he ignored his symptoms for years ...

Mayor Jon Mitchell has announced the process that will be used to hire the city’s next police chief, which will include a ...

Mayor Jon Mitchell announced the next steps the city is taking to hire a new police chief, which includes establishing a candidate screening committee.

The man owned multiple apartment buildings in New Bedford and rented them to the Latin Kings, knowing they would be used by ...