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Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno would not give details on the incident but called it a "Level 4," or severe cyber attack.

Milford police say traffic cameras and license-plate readers are essential to their safety. That comes as the city has backed down a little on their use, after becoming the center of the debate over the cameras in Connecticut.

All public schools in Springfield, Mass., will be closed Tuesday, September 8, following a cyber incident.

It's been almost a decade since federal health officials first issued a warning about the herbal product kratom, promoted as a safe alternative to opioids for pain. It remains readily available in stores. Massachusetts and Springfield officials are taking action.

As eastern Massachusetts officials ask for more water from the Quabbin Reservoir in western Mass., the state's Interbasin Transfer Act stipulates applications need to spell out which communities will receiving the water, why they need it and whether other options been explored. At the moment says Mass. state Representative Aaron Saunders (D-Belchertown), those answers are not in the MWRA's application.

Maine's hospitality and agricultural industries in particular rely on visa workers.

Generation Farm in Concord, NH is selling out of greens every week to meet the demand for local lettuce. Their two-person operation grows a variety of greens, which they sell wholesale to local restaurants and co-ops.

This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would push back planned protections for the North Atlantic right whale by another seven years.

A pilot program of an AI teaching model will start being used at the end of September, in a single classroom at a public middle school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Some educators see it as an opportunity to address learning challenges and engage students, while others say the decision to use this AI program was made too quickly — and independently.

More than a thousand people took to the streets in Danbury on Wednesday night to protest recent immigration arrests that have stunned the community.