Monica Benevides

The median sale price for single-family homes in Worcester surged 15.1% in August, compared to the year prior, according to a new report from Peabody real estate data firm The Warren Group.

Like every other business, and especially those which are customer-facing, the company had to make swift adjustments in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Marlborough diagnostics company Oxford Immunotec, which is also headquartered in the United Kingdom, has teamed up with Public Health England, an executive agency of the UK’s Department for Health and Social Care, to conduct research around at-home COVID-19 tests.

Milford life sciences company Waters Corp. will open a research laboratory in Cambridge’s Kendall Square, the company announced on Tuesday.

Sudbury restaurateurs Reanna and Jordan Mackey, the duo behind the restaurant 29 Rustic, plan to open what the pair are calling a natural market in Stow later this fall, the business owners announced on Monday.

Three small businesses in downtown Fitchburg received loans totaling $55,000 from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., the development arm of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the organization announced on Friday. 

Little Leaf Farms in Devens has doubled its greenhouse growing capacity to 10 acres, allowing the hydroponic greens manufacturer to produce more than 2 million packages of lettuce each month, the company announced on Wednesday.

Cannabis company Curaleaf, headquartered in Wakefield, will add more than 50 new jobs at its recently expanded cultivation-and-manufacturing facility in Webster, the company announced on Tuesday.

Stacey Gala, wife of convicted drug dealer and former Worcester restaurateur Kevin Perry, has been sentenced to six months of home confinement and three years of supervised release.

Vaillancourt Folk Art in Sutton has named Luke Vaillancourt its new president, the chalkware and decorative ornament maker announced on Wednesday.