National Grid

The four-month lockout by National Grid of more than 1,200 union gas workers has cost the state millions in lost tax revenue .

Gov. Charlie Baker said he's spent "a fair amount of time" meeting with steelworkers and National Grid but hasn't been successful in bringing the two sides to an agreement.

State officials on Monday announced that a natural gas pressurization incident in Woburn had spurred them to impose a moratorium on all non-emergency and non-compliance work across National Grid's service territory.

The union representing locked out National Grid steelworkers plans to meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday with state regulators to discuss a long list of safety complaints.

A former TJX executive has been elected to The Hanover Insurance Group's board of directors.

About 1,100 gas workers were locked out of their National Grid work sites Monday, according to the heads of two United Steel Workers locals.

Anixter, an Illinois-based global supplier of communication and security products, is relocating its Northeast facility from Delaware to Milford.

Another powerful nor'easter, this one on the heels of a storm that battered the East Coast last week, has caused power outages to more than 368,000 Massachusetts homes and businesses on Thursday.

Although all the ramifications are yet to be realized, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the Republican-backed tax overhaul Congress passed almost entirely along party lines in December, has led to local companies reinvesting in their U.S. operations.

National Grid will seek a smaller rate hike in Massachusetts than it originally requested, the utility company said Thursday, citing the benefit of the recent federal tax reform bill.