Larry Parnass

Here’s a look back at the first babies born every year in Berkshire County. Happy Birthday, New Year’s Day babies!

In August 2020, state police raided a Savoy home, after its heavy use of electricity drew suspicion. More than two years later, its owner, Bin Huang, pleaded guilty to a

One day last week, the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Berkshire County hit an unusual high. That tally has eased, but questions remain: How severely will a new strain of the virus, known as XBB1.5, affect public health in the region?

For years now, artists with the Fireside project have been telling young writers in Pittsfield about the literary lions of yesteryear – people like Longfellow and Thoreau. They share tales of those far-off writing lives, here in the Berkshires. They read old works aloud with elementary students. They puzzle out what the poems mean to people today. And they wait to see what happens. This is what happens.

A look at the rhyme and reason of Fireside, which since 2017 has helped elementary students in Pittsfield blossom as writers.

The county’s first baby was born at 9:21 a.m. Sunday at Berkshire Medical Center to parents Marissa and Conor Meehan of Richmond.

“Once in a lifetime.” That’s how the man leading an effort to fix an historic venue in Pittsfield views his team’s mission. And now, it’s a mission with a hefty sum at its disposal.

It is not clear why the aircraft turned over, but a pilot who flies out of the airport noted that recent wind gusts may have loosened or unhooked its tie-down straps.

Leaders of local municipal broadband projects gathered Thursday to thank Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito for their leadership on closing the digital divide in Massachusetts. But access gaps remain — and this is what the state plans to do about it.

A man who grew up on Benedict Road in Pittsfield, son of a plumber, now leads the bankrupt FTX Trading Ltd., giving Berkshire County a second connection to the largest cryptocurrency collapse in history.

The “exotic” property was acquired to house “key” company personnel. The transaction involving Ryan Salame was the largest of a string of recent purchases by FTX Property Holdings Ltd. on New Providence island in the Bahamas.

By one tally, Ryan Salame’s giving in the 2022 mid-term elections ranked him 11th in the country among donors to one of the two major parties.

Eight months ago, a Connecticut company won a special permit to grow cannabis indoors in Becket, after a year of stop-and-start review. But the weed farm remains sidelined, pending an appeal in state Land Court that’s now headed for trial next year.

The Lee Board of Health will soon take its own look at public health risks posed by a PCB landfill proposed for the town, as part of the Rest of River cleanup to be conducted by the General Electric Co.

Leaders of the Baker Hill Road District voted this week to help the town of Lanesborough purchase a site for a planned public safety complex.

It took centuries, but one of Cheshire’s most visible properties is again bare ground. New owners of 12 South St. are at work this week removing debris from the former Beechwood mansion on Route 8.

A march on the six-month anniversary of Miguel Estrella’s death will press for reforms in his name, including a wholesale change in how Pittsfield responds to people in mental health

After years in temporary quarters in Pittsfield, the Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter hopes to double its capacity with a move to Lenox. “It’s going to show forward movement of the

Lee Kohlenberger Jr., a man known for donating comfort dogs to Berkshires schools and police departments, faces a possible larceny charge for defrauding a customer of his poodle-breeding business. He

A year ago, Sheri Biasin of Cheshire was still waiting for the Catholic priest who molested her to be listed as “credibly accused” by the Springfield Diocese. Is 20 years