Quinsigamond Community College

Think of college students and food, and you might picture a case of ramen noodles or late-night pizza deliveries, not a restaurant featuring shrimp cocktails and veal marsala. But Cyrus Mizrahi, owner of Viva Bene Italian Ristorante on Commercial Street in Worcester said being located next door to the Worcester campus of MCPHS University (formerly called the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) is great for the Italian restaurant.

HELPING OTHERS LIVE STRONGUnited Bank, with branches in Central Massachusetts, donated $8,000 to the YMCA of Central...

Gail Carberry knows and loves community colleges. Now she's now using her position to preserve and protect...

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.

This year has brought the first tenants to the site of the former Galleria Mall, but a weak finance market, low rental rates and a lack of nighttime foot traffic stand in the way of developing the rest of the 22-acre CitySquare site.

Athol Savings Bank hired MAUREEN NOVIELLO as senior vice president of human resources. She most recently was...

Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday resumed his effort to publicize public investments in the wake of this year's tax hikes. In Worcester, Patrick was scheduled to announce $15.9 million in funding for a new building at Quinsigamond Community College and $14 million toward a new maintenance facility for the Worcester Regional Transit Authority.

CANCER CRUSADERS Worcester-based Harr Motor Group donated $53,747 to UMass Memorial Cancer Center of Excellence. Pictured, left...

As student loan debt in the United States approaches the $1-trillion mark and has become the largest form of unsecured debt in the nation, federal and state lawmakers are looking for ways to ease the burden on students and turning to performance-based funding for schools as a possible cure.

Public education has long provided a foundation on which to foster and sustain the growth of the...