Pittsfield News

Immigrant advocates are scheduled to tour the state to promote new grants aimed at helping immigrants learn English.

Across Berkshire County, efforts to curb underage drinking and substance abuse are gearing to become more visible in the community.

North County parents who receive state-subsidized child care will have to make the 45-minute drive to Pittsfield from now on to renew their vouchers -- instead of stopping by the Resources for Child Care satellite office on Main Street.

With the distribution pace of the swine flu vaccine progressing from a crawl to a shuffle, officials are urging patience as supplies slowly reach the Berkshires and the H1N1 strain continues to sicken people statewide.

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Crane & Co. plans to consolidate its stationery paper division to a new state-of-the-art facility near its Dalton headquarters, CEO Charles Kittredge said on Thursday.

A woman driving a small sedan was injured in a head-on collision with a pickup truck this afternoon on West Housatonic Street in West Pittsfield.

Police are investigating whether a Sunday morning shooting in the Morningside neighborhood is linked to an assault that occurred on the same street at roughly the same time.

The city is prepared to protect residents against the swine flu -- once the bulk of the H1N1 vaccine arrives in Berkshire County.

Absentee ballots are sorted at the Registrar of Voters office in Pittsfield City Hall.

A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother's semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery.

The following are from David Capeless, District Attorney in Berkshire County: Fred Lee Holt, Jr., 39, of Pittsfield, is charged with four counts of rape and abuse of a child.

Colonial Theatre The stage is set at Pittsfield's gilded palace, the Colonial Theatre, for a return of last year's acclaimed Ballets Metropolis production of Dracula, just in time for Halloween.

While the at large race was fairly low-key, the ward races reflect some of the tumult in Pittsfield.

A development company in Braintree intends to develop an 8-acre plot on Hubbard Avenue for a BJ's Wholesale Club store.

The mayoral debate that had been rescheduled for this afternoon in a closed PCTV studio has been moved to Berkshire Community College so the public can attend.

Berkshire County's largest law firm will be opening an office in Pittsfield for the first time in its 97-year history.

The public Pittsfield mayoral debate originally scheduled for tonight from 6 to 7:30 at the Crowne Plaza has been rescheduled.

Pittsfield's hotels, motels and inns will ring in the new year by charging a higher local rooms tax to raise more revenue for the cash-strapped city.

A woman was robbed at knifepoint while walking on the city's West Side Monday night, according to Pittsfield police, who are seeking two male suspects last seen fleeing east on Madison Avenue.