Though current students are exempt from a new policy banning transgender and nonbinary applicants, some are reconsidering ...

Local bands welcomed students back to campus with performances in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Student Union ...

The Saint Joseph’s Hawk mascot flaps his wings — sometimes both at once, other times one at a time — about 42 times per minute. He never stops flapping during games, even during the national anthem, ...

After four years of US progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction.

Margaret Scarsdale contained an inaccuracy. It has since been corrected. UMass Memorial Health plans to build an emergency department in North Central Massachusetts to fill the health care void ...

REPORTING LIV Two students and a bus driver were taken to a hospital as a precaution after a school bus crash Wednesday morning in Amherst. Police said it appeared that a small truck crashed into ...

Over the last few months, anonymous letters to the Amherst-Pelham School Committee have accused Superintendent E. Xiomara “Dr. Xi” Herman and her former assistant of serious misconduct ...

AMHERST, N.Y. — Fire officials in Amherst are looking into what caused a fire on Joe McCarthy Drive late Tuesday night. Officials said crews from the Ellicott Creek Fire Company responded to a ...

Enter Rizo, the hedgehog. In 2008, this cheeky character first appeared as the mascot for Genesis Seguros, a Spanish insurance company. It wasn't until 2013 that Rizo gained viral fame ...

AMHERST — UMass Amherst’s online education programs are recognized among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s just-released 2025 ...

AMHERST - Two Canada geese found dead on the UMass Amherst campus recently have tested positive for avian flu, the school said Tuesday. This comes after dozens of geese died of suspected bird flu ...