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At a special meeting Wednesday, the planning board took initial steps to create a moratorium on building data centers, following a controversial proposal last week.

The state Attorney General — a gun right's supporter — raised concerns about possible unintended consequences from the legislation.

Hampshire College officials announced there were insufficient financial resources to open for a final fall term. In April, the college announced it would permanently close because of overwhelming debt.

"It's an incredible honor," the church's rector said.

The groups say the goal is provide centralized, reliable information.

A lawsuit by national medical groups has forced the Trump administration to revert to previous vaccination guidelines, but the strained relationship between pediatricians and the new CDC continues in western Massachusetts and beyond.

Scientists with the Nature Conservancy and Forest Service have been raising American elms that are bred to be resistant to Dutch elm disease at two sites in Vermont. Now, they’re injecting them with the fungus to see what happens.

The offshore wind developer is suing GE for trying to leave the project before the turbines are operating at full capacity.

The short river in York County is one of the most heavily-dammed waterways in Maine that doesn't have any fish passage.

As seals return to the waters off the Cape and Islands, white sharks aren’t far behind. And, it turns out, they aren’t the only seal-hunting sharks in our waters.