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By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Within the last two days, the UMass men’s basketball team received big news regarding two of its student-athletes.Freshman guard Jaylen Curry and sophomore forward Daniel Hankins-Sanford each signed NIL deals with The Massachusetts...

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — All signs pointed to something happening soon, but Corey Schneider had no idea it would be that soon.At a Feb. 22 event held at the UMass Club in Boston, nearly the entire UMass Board of Trustees was in attendance – which is fairly unusual,...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — On a cloudy and humid Thursday morning, John Briggs was doing the same thing he has done since 2014: placing mosquito traps and collecting them for testing in the lab.But this time, recent prolonged heavy rains and heat meant that he was...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Since the NCAA removed the ban for student-athlete compensation in July 2021, the NIL era has quickly blossomed in college athletics. Student-athletes have now been afforded avenues to receive compensation for the use of their name, image or...

By DENISE LAVOIE

BOSTON — After the U.S. Supreme Court and the highest court in Massachusetts found that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juveniles, the state began holding parole hearings for 63 people who had...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has detected West Nile virus in the state’s mosquitoes for the first time this year in a sample collected on June 27 in Berkshire County.There have been no confirmed human or animal cases of...