If Gov. Healey’s proposal on road funding advances, people will have a little less to complain about in Western Mass.

Rural communities across Massachusetts are benefiting from state grants aimed at strengthening the local food supply and building climate resilience. State officials have awarded nearly $4 million ...

A private boarding school in rural western Massachusetts that opened in the 19th century is receiving a $50 million bequest ...

with extra funding for small and rural communities. These communities, like many in western Massachusetts, have smaller property tax bases to draw funding from but more road miles to fix up ...

"Under our bill, and with this new, mileage-based formula, every single city and town, including our small towns and rural communities ... in Central and Western Massachusetts could see a 75% ...

The west side of the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Certain kinds of rural, home-based small businesses wouldn’t have to register or pay a fee to Douglas County under a ...