Dec. 23, 2019Edition

More retail stores are on the horizon, and their success will depend on being able to find enough shops to carve out a niche in an industry always increasingly dominated by Amazon and other giants.

As long as Central Massachusetts' economic growth continues, food and drink businesses will follow.

Central Massachusetts colleges and universities face a variety of pressures in the coming year, with shifting enrollment trends to new leadership to the need to impress incoming students.

They’re called deaths of despair – suicide and addiction, including alcoholism and opioids. They’re taking a major toll in Massachusetts and nationwide, and public health officials and lawmakers will continue their fights against these problems in 2020.

Potential homebuyers hoping for prices to ease and inventories to rise in 2020 will be disappointed.

As the CCC works through its backlog, more marijuana stores – both recreational and medical – will open statewide, and in Central Massachusetts, in particular.

Worcester’s highest-profile development will need to hit some major milestones in 2020 in order to stay its course.

We ended up getting half right and half wrong.

Cannabis, Polar Park, The Reactory, Worcester Regional Airport - Here is what we think will happen in 2020.

This year, the number of survey takers predicting economic improvement in 2020 has risen to 54%.

As the newly legalized recreational and medical marijuana industry started to yield more and more business openings starting in late 2018 and into 2019, it became clear the industry was dominated by white males.