Monica Benevides

MCR Labs in Framingham was founded eight years ago by Michael Kahn, who decided to take his experience working in the pharmaceutical testing industry and pivot to cannabis.

Entrepreneurship for All, the Lowell nonprofit with a location in Worcester, has received a $277,777 racial justice grant from Facebook, the organization announced on Monday.

Single-family home sale prices continued to rise in and around Worcester in the month of November, reflecting an upward trend accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic.

MassBio, a Cambridge nonprofit trade association representing the Massachusetts life science industry, will begin a nationwide search for a new CEO following its current president and CEO’s departure in early 2021.

West Boylston was awarded $49,000 to improve pedestrian safety at four locations near a school and recreational facilities as part of a $1.7-million state grant package.

BayCoast Mortgage Co., a subsidiary of Swansea-headquartered BayCoast Bank, has opened a loan production office in Auburn, the company announced Thursday. 

The vast majority of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans in the Worcester metropolitan area went to upper and middle income white neighborhoods, according to geocoded data released by Washington nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Management at Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton spent months preparing for this year’s ski season, meeting regularly since September to prepare for what was slated to be a winter unlike any other in over a century.

Worcester’s City Council voted 8-3 to raise the city’s commercial property tax rate Wednesday night, while lowering the residential property tax rate.

Run by the same family that launched popular juice company Veryfine Products Inc. of Littleton, which in turn traces its roots back to 1865, New England Apple Products is very much embedded in the apple-and-juice industry in northern Massachusetts.