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By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Fire service leaders from across the region viewed footage of battery storage facilities, electric scooters and electric vehicles combusting into flames on Tuesday, broadening their knowledge of the unique challenges associated with extinguishing battery fires.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Department heads voiced frustration last week about potentially having to sustain 15% budget cuts as Orange once again grapples with financial woes.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

CONWAY — After it was struck by lightning, a barn containing farm equipment at 14 Sabans Road was destroyed Saturday afternoon, according to Fire Chief Robert Baker.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GILL — There were no reported injuries after a recycling truck hit an F.M. Kuzmeskus school bus carrying children on Main Road Friday afternoon.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — No one was injured when two rafters got stranded while fishing along the Deerfield River and needed to be assisted by first responders Friday morning.

By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — No injuries were reported Thursday evening after a fire that started in a garage spread to the house next to it on Phillips Street.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

LEVERETT — A couple was displaced from their Teawaddle Hill Road home Tuesday night after a fire caused a partial collapse of the single-story house.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

WARWICK — The driver of a Jeep was transported by helicopter for treatment of serious injuries Friday evening following a crash on Winchester Road near its intersection with Flower Hill Road.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The cause of a fire that scorched the back of a four-family house at 16 Devens St. Thursday afternoon remains under investigation, according to Fire Chief Robert Strahan.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

LEYDEN — About 12 hours after Leyden and Bernardston firefighters extinguished an attic fire on East Hill Road early Monday morning, the fire reignited later in the afternoon.

By PAUL FRANZ and DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A fire that killed two dogs and three cats at 41 Rogers Ave. on Sunday afternoon was determined to have started on the left side of the house’s first floor, according to a state Department of Fire Services spokesperson.

By ADITI THUBE

Massachusetts gun rights advocates are pushing to overturn a 2024 update of the state’s already tough firearms law, collecting more than 90,000 signatures to place a repeal referendum on the 2026 ballot.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

MONTAGUE — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested four farmworkers associated with Red Fire Farm earlier this month as part of a six-day operation throughout the state, including a raid in Springfield, that resulted in the arrests of 370 allegedly undocumented immigrants.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The city’s Fire Station at 41 Main St., a roughly $21.7 million construction project that opened last May, uses 250% more energy than anticipated, according to Greenfield’s Energy and Sustainability Director Carole Collins.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

BERNARDSTON — It’s official. Bernardston’s new Fire Station at 167 Northfield Road is operational and ready to serve the community.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WASHINGTON — As federal dollars continue to be frozen for projects across the nation, a Pioneer Valley farm has joined a federal lawsuit demanding the government lift the “unlawful and indefinite freeze of congressional appropriated funds,” according to documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

COLRAIN — The sugarhouse at Hager’s Farm on Merrifield Lane sustained minor damage during a fire that was quickly extinguished Wednesday evening.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — The Greenfield Police Department is urging those who have applied for either new or renewed gun licenses to be patient, as it has been processing a weekly volume of applications that is roughly double what was seen in October.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

NORTHFIELD — Firefighters came to the rescue of a 6-month-old border collie Tuesday evening after it fell through the ice of the partially melted Connecticut River.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

DEERFIELD — Fire Chief Daren Melnik said he believes a faulty extension cord may be responsible for a greenhouse fire on Jones Road Tuesday afternoon.