AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – A UMass Amherst student who attempted to win $10,000 by shooting a basketball from half-court was disqualified after further review. The shootout contest led to ...

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 ...

Two Canada geese found dead on the campus of UMass Amherst have tested positive for bird flu, the school confirmed Tuesday.The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources found that the ...

The geese are the first known cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as HPAI or H5N1, on the UMass Amherst campus, according to a UMass spokesperson. Signs have been placed near ...

UMass said it would pay a student the $10,000 prize for a halftime promotion at a women’s basketball game after a dispute with an insurance company over whether he stepped over the line when he ...

Amherst College will contribute $2.5 million to the town of Amherst over the next three years to support local schools, emergency services, and infrastructure. The commitment, announced by Amherst ...

Afterward, UFC CEO Dana White said Tsarukyan will need to re-earn his Makhachev rematch. "He's going back to the drawing board," White said. "I don't want anybody to ever fight hurt, ever.

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 ...

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 ...

UFC president Dana White slammed American fighter Bryce Mitchell after the 30-year-old made several antisemitic, homophobic and transphobic comments during a podcast in which he also praised Adolf ...