Even though e-commerce heavyweights like Amazon and eBay are carving up ever-larger slices of the holiday shopping pie, a tight-knit group of downtown retailers have found their niche, catering to visitors and locals seeking

Andrea Wagner is walking through the back of the cavernous Berkshire Corporate Center on Pleasant Street. She points out various laboratory facilities that her company, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, has built in the former warehouse,

Julia Dixon has spent the better part of the past four years helping artists and other creatives understand how to excel as entrepreneurs. Now, the creative economy specialist intends to make use of her own

1Berkshire generated nearly $2 million in combined income during fiscal 2016, president and CEO Jonathan Butler said at the organization's annual meeting on Thursday night. Those figures include income from the 1Berkshire Strategic Alliance, the

The Baker-Polito Administration today announced $300,000 in grants to the Commonwealth’s regional Buy Local agricultural organizations for projects that will enhance efforts in western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts. Regional agricultural Buy Local organizations

The increase in Berkshire visitor spending in 2015 attests to the strong Berkshire brand and the high quality of the attractions visitors find here. Ideally this will be reflected a year from now when

It ran for three months, drew 170,000 visitors, and generated $14.8 million in visitor spending. "Van Gogh and Nature," last year's Vincent Van Gogh exhibit at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, produced the highest

  The state has awarded $2.6 million to make the final mile connecting the town to North Adams by rail a reality. The MassWorks funding for the Berkshire Scenic Railway was part of the more