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By James Mattone

BOSTON — Although Massachusetts’ opioid deaths are still on the rise, with the powerful drug fentanyl adding to the toll, facets of the Legislature’s anti-drug act are beginning to have an impact.Prescribers have doubled their use of a new online tool...

By JACK SUNTRUP

NORTHAMPTON — Kim Tremblay sipped free hot chocolate and talked New Year’s resolutions as her family made its way to another event during Northampton’s 32nd First Night celebration.“There are things like that that are just everywhere,” Tremblay,...

By KEN POWTAK

BOSTON — A fast start and another solid outing by goaltender Tuukka Rask made for a fairly easy afternoon for the Boston Bruins.Patrice Bergeron and Tim Schaller scored second-period goals Saturday to help the Bruins beat Buffalo 3-1 and complete a...

By Jack Suntrup@JackSuntrupNORTHAMPTON — It’s Dec. 31, that day after all the other days of the year. The last one.It can be surreal to hit that imaginary pause button and reflect on 2016. We pull out the takeaways and think about them — the good...

Amherst RegionalSage Bailin — CMass/WMass Division 1 outdoor 400 hurdles champ.Luca Brashear — WMass boys 1-meter diving champ.Joe Costello — Coached Amherst boys to state Division 1 ultimate championship.Sophia Jacobs-Townsley — Won the District F&G...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A state electric utility confirmed on Friday it had found on one of its laptops a malware code the U.S. government says is used by Russian hackers.The Burlington Electric Department said U.S. utilities were alerted by the...

By ANDY COSTILLO

DEERFIELD — There hasn’t been serious action taken to control mosquito populations in western Massachusetts since the early 1980s — until now.Deerfield is spearheading a regional partnership to “establish the Pioneer Valley Mosquito Control District”...

By MATTHEW KAUFFMAN

HARTFORD, Conn. — A divided Connecticut Supreme Court Friday reinstated the murder conviction of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, rejecting a Superior Court judge’s finding that Skakel’s trial was tainted by ineffective lawyering and setting the...

By MARK GILLISPIE

CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday suspended its search for an airplane that was carrying a beverage distribution company executive and five other people when it vanished over Lake Erie shortly after takeoff from the city’s lakeshore...

By ORIANA DURAND

In the debate leading up to November’s vote legalizing marijuana, law enforcement officials warned that traffic cops had no equivalent to a Breathalyzer to prove drug impairment in drivers.“With marijuana, it’s much more difficult to make the arrest...

By DAVID SHARP

PORTLAND, Maine — The most powerful nor’easter in nearly two years brought heavy snow, powerful winds and even thunder and lightning to northern New England, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark Friday and burying some towns under 2 feet of...

By MATT VAUTOUR

AMHERST — The young UMass basketball team found out quickly that conference play figures to be a little tougher than what it had seen so far.St. Bonaventure’s veteran backcourt outplayed the Minutemen’s young guards, and UMass couldn’t keep up in a...

By MATT VAUTOUR

AMHERST — UMass and St. Bonaventure has been a good rivalry in recent years, but the matchup got extra heated when Minuteman center Brison Gresham and St. Bonaventure big man Jay Ayeni were each ejected in the first half of the Bonnies 89-77 win at...

As 2016 slips into 2017, here are four major stories from the past year that will continue to have a big impact in the new year.TRUMP PRESIDENCY: Uncertainty is an apt term to describe the lead-up to Donald Trump’s presidency which starts Jan. 20....

By CLARE HIGGINS

Eight years ago we were in the middle of what is now known as the Great Recession.The wildly inflated housing bubble burst, causing a crisis in the banking sector and sharp declines in consumer spending. The American auto industry was on the verge of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Promoting affordable housing, enhancing community services for low- and moderate-income residents and making public infrastructure more accessible are among the projects encouraged in the town’s 2017 community development strategy.This...

Verified Twittter user David Jablonski joins Matt Vautour on the show this week to discuss the beginning of Atlantic 10 basketball play.