WBJ Staff

After Massachusetts spent much of 2020 improving its monthly unemployment rate, that progress reversed slightly in December to end the year. The rate rose 0.7 percentage points to hit 7.4%.

Six Worcester agencies have won a share of more than $3 million in funding from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation to improve healthcare services.

Clark University in Worcester has secured a $10-million federal grant for workforce training in industries including information technology, advanced manufacturing, and transportation.

Davis Advertising has sold its office building on Grafton Street in Worcester for just over $2 million and will lease back about half of the building.

Life sciences analytical technology firm SCIEX has completed the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based Intabio.

Open Sky Community Services, a Worcester human services nonprofit, will open a family support center in Whitinsville in February to serve children and adults with intellectual disabilities or autism and their families.

MetroWest Medical Center is expanding a sleep testing laboratory amid what it says are experts' warnings of increased sleep issues during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Worcester property management firm has paid $2.3 million for a pair of multifamily buildings near Becker College.

Mayflower Medicinals, a cannabis company with a medical-only dispensary in Allston and a cultivation and manufacturing facility in Holliston, opened its doors to adult-use customers in Worcester on Dec. 10.

A Westborough data security firm has paid nearly $2.6 million to buy an office building on Forest...