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• Estate Tax: Governor Healey increased the threshold from $1 million to $2 million with a credit that mitigates the cliff effect. This change brings Massachusetts more in line with other states, ...

A Berkshire County icon is one of two women to be honored with a bust in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber for the first time ...

Oheka Castle helped inspire "The Great Gatsby," which was published 100 years ago. The mansion is the second-largest private ...

A local historian felt proud when she noticed The New York Times had finally given Katharine Dexter McCormick a proper tribute in an obituary published more than 58 years after her death. “It made me ...

Idyllic country grounds at an English home with celebrity pedigree were the inspiration for a two-part kitchen extension and ...

The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames ...

Sheffield's attractions include the Thom Reed UFO Park and Colonel John Ashley House, where slavery's end in Massachusetts ...

Whether by accident or design, the contributions of women who have shaped our Commonwealth and nation have too long been ...

A bust of Berkshires' freedom fighter Elizabeth Freeman, the first enslaved woman to successfully sue for her freedom in the ...

Restored after years of neglect, Crown Heights' oldest house recalls a time when farms and country villas dotted the area.

Throughout the year, the caucus will engage in a variety of initiatives aimed at recognizing the contributions of women lawmakers, past and present, who shaped policies and advanced social change ...