Chicopee

With state legislative sessions underway, so are legislative breakfasts – bagel and coffee-filled meet-ups connecting lawmakers with advocates across different sectors. That includes libraries. In Massachusetts, officials are calling for modest increases in the face of a tighter budget recently put forward by Governor Maura Healey.

Half-a-century of making an economic engine out of the grounds around the largest air force reserve base in the country is being celebrated in Western Massachusetts.

Hundreds of blue and white bikes are back and rolling now that a popular bike share program has relaunched in western Massachusetts.

An effort to improve water quality and remove two dams at a western Massachusetts park is progressing.

Millions spent to remove hazardous materials from the site

Premiums were paid for people no longer employed by the city

The city has spent a decade preparing the brownfield site for development

The U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts says the Superintendent of Chicopee Public Schools has been arrested for making false statements about sending threatening messages to a candidate for city police chief.

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts has announced plans for a $22 million distribution center and headquarters at a business park in Chicopee. At…

A program that repairs homes so that low-income people can age in place has been welcomed to another city in western Massachusetts. George Kane, an…