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Two historical landmarks may receive a makeover after a bill was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives to grant $267,000 to Hancock Shaker Village and the Stockbridge Mission House and Indian Museum.

Just saying no to growth in their town, Harvard, was not good enough for three women.

A group of people is hoping to create a 3.7-mile recreational path along the rail track in Groton and Townsend.

After more than a decade of waiting, Harriman & West Airport's aspirations to repair their runway are finally taking off.

A mysterious Alabama-based political telemarketing group has begun calling city residents with questions about the upcoming mayoral race candidates, the economy and other local democrats.

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Members of the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood agreed that creativity is needed to find a permanent and sustainable way to provide money for the Highway Trust Fund, but solutions mentioned during a budget hearing on Thursday broke no new ground.

By DAN RING dring@repub.com BOSTON - Gov. Deval L. Patrick and other top politicians will address delegates on Saturday at the state Democratic convention in Springfield, in an event that will set the table for next year's statewide election.

With federal stimulus funding to 'turbocharge' the state's $40 million effort to provide broadband service to the least-served communities in Massachusetts, Gov.

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark., worked to convince his House colleagues of the benefits to the state and the nation of funding for Interstate 49.

There are lots of bridges to cross and roads to travel for lawmakers bent on ending the time-honored practice of funneling money to their home states: at least 6,800 of them.

When I last wrote about West Springfield's Scuderi Group , the family business's patriarch and principal inventor of the Scuderi split-cycle engine, Carmelo Scuderi, had recently passed away.

Departments National Issues 76 members of Congress oppose staying in Afghanistan forever by David Swanson May 18, 2009 Imagine if Spain indicts Gonzales, Bybee, Haynes, Yoo, Addington, and Feith, but the United States fails to extradite them and in fact appears guilty of having harbored and possibly even employed them at good salaries.

The New England delegation divided on the issue today as the House approved funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the US winds down its involvement in the former and increases its push in the latter.

Stephen P. Scuderi, second from right, speaks about the cut-away model of the Scuderi Group engine, which was unveiled Monday during a press conference at the Storrowton Tavern Carriage House in West Springfield.

In nearly six years in the Legislature, Sen. Andrea F. Nuciforo Jr., a Pittsfield Democrat, earned a reputation as a quiet legislator skilled in retail politics and versed in legislative minutiae.

Here's a shocker: Congressmen break the rules. A handful of Congressional representatives, including Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, were arrested on Friday outside the Sudanese Embassy in D.C. while protesting the ongoing violence/genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Western MA: Rep. Neal's Opposition to Needle Exchange Continues including no support for lifting HR 179 lifting bad on suport for federal needle exchange funds New Hope for Needle Exchange A new bill may lift a 1988 ban on using federal funds to support needle exchange programs.

Two federal departments collaborating? An unnatural act? Maybe. But if you care what kind of neighborhood you live in, or whether you or your kids will be able to make ends meet, then check out this burgeoning departmental romance.

The governor, state legislators, the mayor and regional transportation officials picked up gold-plated shovels in unison Friday afternoon and tossed dirt from one side of a sand pile to the other in the former Toyota of Greenfield paved parking lot to symbolically break ground for a new regional transportation center.