WBJ Staff

Nichols College has received a $2-million gift to go toward scholarships for local students and a variety of academic initiatives, the Dudley school announced Wednesday.

UMass Memorial Medical Center is no longer allowing visitors to its University Campus in Worcester in a new policy started Tuesday night.

WBJ will host a web forum centered around building a better business through diversity and inclusion on Thursday, featuring speakers from sectors including nonprofits, education and banking.

College of the Holy Cross is planning to hold its spring semester in-person on the Worcester campus, despite rising coronavirus case numbers this fall, saying it has learned from operations this fall on campus and from peer colleges.

The day care chain Bright Horizons has paid $1.2 million for its Franklin facility at 2 Constitution Blvd.

The rate of new coronavirus cases in the past two weeks has nearly doubled in Fitchburg, with the city showing far and away the most severe outbreak in Central Massachusetts, according to data released late Friday.

A Worcester property investor has paid $2.2 million for a portfolio of multifamily properties in Northbridge, Southbridge and Webster.

Tina Sbrega, the president and CEO of GFA Federal Credit Union, has been inducted into the Cooperative Credit Union Association after more than a decade leading the Gardner institution.

Harrington HealthCare System has opened a new addiction treatment facility offering immediate access to those with alcohol and substance abuse disorders.

The property on which a 160-bed nursing home sits off Lincoln Street in Worcester has sold for more than $3 million to a Baltimore financing firm working with the healthcare industry.