College of the Holy Cross

Business and educational leaders in and around Worcester hope the city's new manager and economic development chief will continue the work begun by their predecessors, both of whom will be leaving City Hall within the next two months.

By a two-to-one margin, fans voted to name Worcester's new baseball team the Bravehearts.

If there's one industry that benefited from the Great Recession, it's higher education. Faced with tougher competition for jobs, more people enrolled in colleges and universities to finish or obtain more advanced degrees to stand out from the crowd.

Bob Fichtel, who runs a one-person marketing and design studio out of Ashburnham, wasn't shocked when business dipped 10 percent this year. After all, times continue to be tough.

He recently made news as the owner of the new Worcester franchise in the Futures Collegiate Baseball...

Baseball is a cornerstone of American culture. All summer long, games are played most every day, and...

No wind turbine goes up in Massachusetts without a fight. That's a key reason the Bay State ranks just 35th in wind power capacity, several industry experts argued.

A new Futures Collegiate Baseball League (FCBL) team will call Worcester home, making it the 10th franchise for the league in New England. The team, which has yet to be named, will fill the baseball void created when the minor-league Worcester Tornadoes folded due to financial troubles last summer.

Several Central Massachusetts colleges will be included in a $2-million energy efficiency pilot program, MassDevelopment announced.

Worcester's College of the Holy Cross is getting a boost in its efforts to grow its fine and performing arts curriculum and strengthen its ties to the area's cultural institutions through a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.