Education

Little goes on in the Blackstone Valley business community without Hebert's knowledge and – usually – involvement.

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has awarded $69,000 to artists and arts initiatives in Worcester as part of a new program.

Long caught in Boston's shadow and for decades trying to forge a new reputation for itself, Worcester is eager to find reasons to tout its economic progress – even if it is just a new restaurant or construction project start.

At a time when colleges are battling high costs and a shrinking pool of high school graduates, they are increasingly turning for growth to an area where they don't need to recruit students, house them in dorms or feed them in dining halls.

RYAN LANDRY is the new assistant vice president and senior consumer loan underwriter for UniBank. Landry, who...

Framingham State University has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to increase STEM education.

An increasing amount of primary care is being provided by agencies set up specifically with low-income and marginalized people in mind: federally qualified community health centers.

A Boston solar firm has completed its fourth community solar project in Worcester County, this one a 2.6-megawatt facility in Charlton to benefit a Lancaster human services agency.

Massachusetts unemployment rate has been at 3.5 percent for eight straight months, according to the state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday signed a $623-million life sciences bond bill to provide funding for education, research and development and workforce training for the industry.