Health

NORTH ADAMS -- Northern Berkshire Healthcare is seeking to partner with a health care organization as it faces a huge loss this fiscal year, with a deficit projected at $8.1 million and no improvement in the economy foreseen.   Full Story

Often, it is that we just don't know. For instance, what lovelier shrub, especially in the autumn, is there than the burning bush or wingedeuonymus?   Full Story

PITTSFIELD -- Chocolate milk stirred up a great debate last week.   Full Story

PITTSFIELD - For the first time, local leaders and residents are coming together to talk about a subject that is tough to talk about - suicide.   Full Story

NEW MARLBOROUGH - Bridget Ford Hughes says she had a pretty nice life a couple years ago - living in New York City, running her own message therapy center and working with famous clientele.   Full Story

PITTSFIELD - Many see zebra mussels as an environmental threat, an invader of the most virulent kind.   Full Story

PITTSFIELD -- In 2000, Nancy M. Thompson was diagnosed with cancer.   Full Story

NORTH ADAMS -- Union officials at North Adams Regional Hospital charged Friday that hospital management has presented employees with a list of 18 demands that, among other things, threaten retirement benefits, overtime pay and seniority status for the number of years worked at the hospital.   Full Story

PITTSFIELD -- With the distribution pace of the swine flu vaccine progressing from a crawl to a shuffle, officials are urging patience as supplies slowly reach the Berkshires and the H1N1 strain continues to sicken people statewide.   Full Story

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter last week to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science fiction concept of space elevators.   Full Story

Q: You recently wrote about sugar for wound healing. I have been in veterinary medicine for 15 years.   Full Story

Q: In October each year, we are visited by an inordinate number of Asian ladybugs, literally thousands.   Full Story

NORTH ADAMS -- Starting Tuesday, North Adams Regional Hospital will restrict visiting hours and restrict visitors to those who are 18 years of age   Full Story

NORTH ADAMS -- After three years of persistent lobbying from state legislators and other key governmental officials, the MCLA Center for Science and Innovation is becoming a reality -- the $50 million building was included in the governor's five-year capital plan that was released late Wednesday afternoon.   Full Story

LE BOURGET, France - Air France Flight 447 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean, intact and belly first, at such a high speed that the 228 people aboard probably had no time to even inflate their life jackets, French investigators said Thursday in their first report into the June 1 accident.   Full Story