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West Springfield, MAWEST SPRINGFIELD — Congressman Richard Neal joined local officials Monday to announce a $48,000 federal grant for the West Springfield Fire Department, which will use the money...

Washington, DCA commemorative coin that honors the 125th anniversary of basketball could be approved this year, according to U.S. Rep. Richard Neal (D-Springfield.). Neal said the bill has 215...

Washington, DC Massachusetts Congressman Richard Neal released a statement Monday on the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida. At least 50 were killed and 53 others were injured. Below is the...

Washington, DC It’s an important anniversary in Irish history. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal tells WAMC’s Alan Chartock about the Easter Rising. To view...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) — Springfield’s 90-year-old Union Station is getting a facelift. 22News strapped on our hard hats, and took a look inside the $88.5-million rehabilitation...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) — Today, local and federal officials got an inside look at the Union Station rehabilitation project. The transportation hub is in its last stages of...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Springfield, toured Union Station on Monday with Amtrak representatives and city officials in search of ways to make the revamped depot a...

Washington, DC CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The winner of the 2016 Congressional Art Competition was announced Monday. Mark Sweeney, a student at Holyoke Catholic, was declared the winner by Congressman...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — City and school officials and many supporters gathered at the Clifford A. Phaneuf Environmental Center at Forest Park on Thursday to praise a completed $4 million...

Washington, DC WILBRAHAM – Tuskegee Airman James Sowell, 94, who lives at Wingate Nursing Home in Wilbraham, was unable to attend the 2007 ceremony in which the Tuskegee airmen were awarded the...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — A national organization representing insurance agents and brokers will conduct its annual four-day fall convention in downtown Springfield in 2018. The event is expected...

Washington, DC CHESHIRE, Mass. — One of Hoosac Valley High School's best will be headed for the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis this summer. Jared Haley of Adams is the first Hurricane in recent...

Washington, DC CHESHIRE — For this first time in as long as anyone can remember, a Hoosac Valley Student has been tapped to attend a United States service academy. Hoosac Valley High School senior...

Washington, DC STOCKBRIDGE — Amid a whirlwind of finishing touches and unpacking of boxed book collections, Director Katie O'Neil conducted a grand tour of the historic Stockbridge Library on...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — At the exact anniversary of the Easter Rising, William Cahillane stood up and read the 100-year-old document that officially created the Provisional Government of the...

Washington, DC Four weeks ago, I stood in the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin, a guest of the Irish government, to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising, one of...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — The city has received a new $13.8 million federal grant as compensation for the damage to the former state armory building on Howard Street from the 2011 tornado. The...

Washington, DC SPRINGFIELD — A barber chair that once served a bustling Union Station in the 1930s, and beyond, was back in public view on Monday after decades of storage, refurbished to its former...

Washington, DC When Richard Neal played football for Technical High School in the mid-1960s, there used to be two different ways home after a game. Which road the team took, however, depended on the...

Washington, DC Global champion for human rights Joia Mukherjee, the chief medical officer for Partners In Health (PIH), will deliver the keynote speech for Mount Holyoke College’s 179th Commencement...