NorthStar reports the Vermont Yankee reactor is 99% decommissioned, setting the stage for NRC site release and potential reuse.

Scientist to speak at Fisher Museum for lecture series PETERSHAM—All are welcome to join pre-eminent ecologist, Dr., Michelle Mack, at the Harvard Forest Fisher Museum as she presents a public talk, ...

State auditors found the DUA failed to meet federal payment deadlines and lacked oversight for long call center wait times.

With the state preparing for a rare reexamination of how it pays for public education, state Sen. Jo Comerford is calling on residents and officials to make their voices heard while pushing for ...

GREENFIELD — As the 30th annual Source to Sea Cleanup approaches, organizers say more than 120 volunteer groups have already signed up to participate in the cleanup of the Connecticut River and its ...

Across Franklin County, neighborliness will be front and center as several organizations celebrate Good Neighbor Day before and after the state-designated holiday on Monday, Sept. 28, which is ...

Athol Orange Rotary Club President Bill Kessler and Cesar Uribe, a call firefighter and son of the owner of Los Agaves, load equipment into a fire truck, which has been shipped to the town of Ayutla ...

A European paper wasp visits the flowers and seed pods of a wild parsnip. Credit: BILL DANIELSON / For the Recorder Sign up for the Athol Daily News' morning newsletter and get essential news each day ...

BOSTON — Without signals that legislative negotiators are close to agreement on a long-debated energy affordability bill and as some Bay State households get ready to turn the heat back on, Gov. Maura ...

In December of 2013, during my second visit to Florida that year, I saw this beautiful Roseate Spoonbill while I was standing on the boardwalk at the Wakodahatchee Wetlands. Credit: CONTRIBUTED / Bill ...

AMHERST — More than 1,200 acres of forestland throughout the region, including over 200 acres in Pelham, Westhampton and Williamsburg, are being donated to the Kestrel and Mount Grace land trusts for ...

BOSTON — The disgraced former aide to Gov. Maura Healey facing drug charges for allegedly running a cocaine trafficking ring out of the governor’s western Massachusetts office appeared in Hampden ...