Mayor Linda Tyer selected familiar faces in Deanna Ruffer, the Community Development director, and Gina Armstrong, the former Health Department director, to oversee the city's use of almost $41 million in American Rescue Plan Act money.

The city has received four applications from candidates seeking to succeed Gina Armstrong as Pittsfield's health director, according to health department officials. Interim Health Director Cambi said on Wednesday the four sets of cover letters and resumes came in before last week's submission deadline. The Board of Health will start reviewing the applications soon.

Significant summer rain has provided the perfect nursery for an extra-large population of mosquitoes this year. It's a problem the Berkshire County Mosquito Control Project typically is well-equipped to meet. But, this year, a City Council vote removed the project's most productive technique: neighborhood pesticide sprays.

The Pittsfield Public Health Department said it expected local coronavirus case numbers to increase over the next week, after data from the wastewater program showed an increase in the presence of the virus in the city's sewage.

PITTSFIELD — The Board of Health meeting Wednesday night started and ended with resignations: At the top of the meeting was the resignation of…

PITTSFIELD — First came testimony from people who say their lives were upended when a cell tower began transmitting in September.