The percentage of people living in poverty in the urban areas of the Pioneer Valley increased last year after having declined the year before, according to statistics released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

By MANON L. MIRABELLI BLANDFORD - By the slimmest of margins and in one of the town's biggest voter turnouts, residents Monday chose to override Proposition 21 2 to restore services slashed from a bare bones ...

Gail Boardman Kallock gestures toward pasture land on Montgomery Road in Westfield that the city is purchasing for open space and ball fields.