WBJ Staff

Discern’d Cannabis Purveyors, a planned pot shop in Grafton, has received a provisional state license and has plans to open this fall.

Jack's Abby Craft Lagers in Framingham has been waiting for warmer weather to open for sit-down service. That time is finally about here.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will take over the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute after Becker College, MassDiGI's host, closes following the end of the spring semester.

Fitchburg, Framingham, Worcester State and their counterparts statewide will require students to receive COVID-19 vaccines this fall, they said in a joint announcement Friday.

The Worcester Business Journal on Monday announced its 2021 Manufacturing Excellence Awards, honoring manufacturers large and small for their achievements over the past year.

The hospitality industry is filled with small businesses who often employ a handful of people and are important to their communities, offering high-profile and well-known locations for people to gather and rally around.

People are on the move at Community Harvest Project, Nichols College, Country Bank and more.

A firm registered to owners in Chelmsford and Burlington have paid $2.6 million for a pair of adjacent buildings on the eastern edge of downtown Fitchburg.

The properting on which a longtime family-run hotel in Uxbridge, the Quaker Inn, sits has sold for $1.8 million.

Worcester, Framingham, Fitchburg, Hudson and Hopkinton are among 31 youth substance abuse prevention programs across the state sharing in $3.8 million in new state grants.