New England Public Radio News

The average vegetable or fruit consumed in the United States travels almost 1,500 miles before it reaches someone's dinner table. And in winter the fresh produce travel-time really ramps up. In New England, eating during the...

A 25 year old Northampton resident was arraigned for the arson that killed two men in the city in the early morning of December 27th. WFCR's Karen Brown reports.

Paul Yeskie, Sr. and his son Paul Yeskie, Jr. were buried on Monday at St. Mary's Cemetary in Northampton, Massachusetts, following a weekend of memorial services. The two men died in one of a spate of arson fires set in the city...

A 25-year-old man from Northampton Massachusetts stands accused of setting an arson fire that killed two of his neighbors - and he is suspected of setting 14 more fires last week, in a rampage that deeply unsettled the small...

The number of foreclosures in Western Massachusetts dropped 21 percent in November 2009 as compared with November 2008. But, as WFCR's Kari Njiiri reports, there's little optimism in the new year for the real estate mortgage crisis...

It's been more than a year since federal regulators banned the removal of cut wood from the City of Worcester - a response to a massive infestation by Asian long horned beetles. The pest is considered one of the most serious...

An anonymous donor has allowed the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts to significantly increase its financial support to community programs in the region.