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By LISA SPEAR

Air Force veteran John Paradis’ snoring stutters like a chainsaw before he stops breathing.Paradis, 53, of Northampton gasps for air, choking back to consciousness after his airways collapse over and over again throughout the night. He is fighting to...

By STEPHANIE MURRAY

AMHERST — The Hospice of the Fisher Home is nearly ready to reopen after a devastating July fire that destroyed much of the building’s roof and displaced six patients.The reopening will return a rare resource to Hampshire County. According to...

By JOHN SHEIRER

Growing up, I attended a tiny Lutheran church near our family farm. During a Christmas service four decades ago, as our beloved pastor was delivering another soft-spoken sermon about kindness and grace, thick sheets of snow thundered down the pitched...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

As the new state representative for the 3rd Hampshire District, Solomon Goldstein-Rose plans to make himself available to residents in Amherst, Pelham and Precinct 1 in Granby on a regular basis.Goldstein-Rose, who dropped by the Bangs Community...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Easthampton cyclist Jeremy Powers has looked over his shoulder at Stephen Hyde for years.The mentor, a four-time national champion, watched his mentee grow through the JAM Fund program into one of the top cyclocross riders in the country.Hyde pursued...

By MICHAEL MAJCHROWICZ

NORTHAMPTON — Soknang Chham, the New Salem man prosecutors say shot and killed a 31-year-old Amherst man in October, pleaded not guilty Friday to a slew of charges he is now facing in Hampshire Superior Court.Police say Chham, 33, and his brother,...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON — Cumberland Farms is coming to Northampton Street.The gas station and convenience store chain is planning to build a facility on property located at 221 Northampton St. off Route 10 in Easthampton.A section of the nearly 2-acre lot is...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A proposal to expand and renovate the Jones Library will be submitted to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners in less than three weeks, even as issues with preliminary plans continue to be addressed.But Austin Sarat, president of...

By MARLEY JAY

NEW YORK — So close! The Dow Jones industrial average missed the 20,000 mark by a fraction of a point Friday as U.S. stock indexes rose after the government said wages jumped in December. Two other major indexes set records.Stocks wavered between...

WESTBOROUGH — About $20 million in cash that was hidden inside a box spring in a Massachusetts apartment has been seized as part of a wide-ranging investigation into an internet telecom company that was actually a massive international pyramid scheme,...

By DON BABWIN

CHICAGO — A judge rebuked four black people accused of beating a mentally disabled white man and broadcasting the attack on Facebook, sternly asking, “Where was your sense of decency?” before denying their attorneys’ pleas to set bail so they might be...

By PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE

RIO DE JANEIRO — Thirty-one inmates were slain Friday in northern Brazil, some with their hearts and intestines ripped out, during a prison killing spree led by the country’s largest gang, authorities said.The bloodshed comes just days after 60...

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEB RIECHMANN

WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hidden campaign to influence America’s presidential election in favor of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, U.S. intelligence agencies declared Friday in the government’s first formal allegation...

By ERICA WERNER and JILL COLVIN

WASHINGTON — It was the signature promise of his campaign: Donald Trump vowed to build an impenetrable, concrete wall along the southern border. And Mexico was going to pay for it.Now as he nears inauguration, that wall is sounding increasingly like...

Despite advances made in Massachusetts during 2016 in battling opioid addiction, much work remains to be done in combating this nationwide blight.Last March, Gov. Charlie Baker signed what he called the most comprehensive law in the United States to...

By BILL NEWMAN

A year ago I could not have imagined asking or being asked the question, is fascism at America’s door? Now I find it critical to contemplate the answer.The question takes me back to my senior year at Antioch College in 1972 when I was taking a course...

By GAZETTE STAFF

Citing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern, D-Worcester, formally protested during a Joint Session of Congress certifying its results.“Today I was the first member of Congress to rise and formally object...

AmherstRichard Atkinson, class of 2019, was named to the fall semester high honors list at Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut.BelchertownErin Finn was recently named to the fall semester president's list at The State University of New York at...

By Peter Vancini

To say that Sevenstrong serves local food would be a serious understatement. The recipes designed by executive chef Jonathan Adler are local to the point of obsessiveness. Adler and his general manager Sébastien Piekutowski, who co-own the...

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — The number of heroin overdoses in the city has nearly tripled in the last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Northampton Police Department .“We are indeed in the midst of a terrible epidemic,” the department wrote in a...