WAMC's award-winning daily news magazine brings listeners the latest in local, national, and world news. Join Lucas Willard each weekday for the latest. Samantha Simmons hosts the weekend edition. The work of the WAMC News team is complemented each day with news and features from the BBC and Stardate. Midday Magazine also offers a comprehensive regional weather summary and a range of commentators who span the political spectrum. Highlights from the WAMC Listener Comment Line are usually aired on Friday's edition of Midday Magazine.
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New York State’s Legislative Session technically ended Thursday, but there’s still work to be done. Lawmakers worked through the night Thursday to wrap up negotiations, but hundreds of bills remain up in the air. WAMC spoke with reporter Jimmy Vielkind of the New York Public News Network for an update on negotiations. -
Though far from a perfect play, “N/A” is an intriguing look at backroom politics. The work offered at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, MA, pits reason versus passion in politics. If you are more WOKE rather than MAGA you should enjoy this production. -
Hudson Valley Community College has named a new president — and he has longstanding ties to the region. Michael Brophy will begin his tenure at HVCC August 1. -
NewsChannel 13 Meteorologist Reid Kisselback provides the regional weather summary for Sunday, June 15, 2025. -
Cole Quest of Cole Quest and the City Pickers. The band plays at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts tonight at 8. The band’s new record, ‘Homegrown,’ will be released July 18. -
Embracing the well-worn metaphor that life is a road, there are certain mileposts that one can see from a great distance away. As early as second grade I used to marvel that in the unfathomably distant year of 2000 I’d be forty-seven ancient years old. -
Officials in Troy recently heralded a long-awaited announcement: they would leave their longtime but temporary city hall home. But now, attorneys for landlord First Columbia says the city actually can’t break the lease. -
A Longmeadow Planning Board member says he plans on staying amid calls to resign – months after he showed up unannounced at a resident’s home and made discriminatory comments. -
It has been a decade since New York state and beyond were in the midst of a massive manhunt after two inmates escaped from the Clinton Correctional prison in Dannemora. -
Bluegrass legends Tony Trischka, Bruce Molsky, and Michael Daves headline this year’s Down County Jump festival at Race Brook Lodge in Sheffield, Mass., today and Saturday.
