Environment

Income for the Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester jumped more than $10 million in the third quarter of the year, the company announced Thursday.

Two Central Massachusetts businesses have received $300,000 in grants from the commonwealth's Recycling Business Development Grant program that will enable them to better process and manage packaged food material.

Marlborough's Boston Scientific has acquired a technology that can enhance endoscopic surgery for precancerous lesions and malignant tumors in the gastrointestinal tract.

For the first time in more than two months, part of Massachusetts is wet enough to no longer be considered in a drought or be "abnormally dry," federal drought observers said Thursday.

The Rhode Island office design and furniture firm Sheehans will open a new 5,000-square-foot showroom in downtown Worcester by January.

At the end of September, the state unveiled its latest solar incentive program that would replace the SREC (solar renewable energy credit) program, get rid of the need to constantly raise the net-metering caps, and seemingly do away with the problem of large commercial installations taking up all the available incentives while offsetting a large portion of their power.

Over half of Massachusetts remains in a state of extreme drought.

The Worcester Regional Transportation Agency on Tuesday held its grand opening for its $90-million maintenance and operations facility.

Climate change will become a "huge focus" of the Baker administration's transportation efforts, according to a top state official who said the old method of building pilot-sized shared-use walking-cycling paths does not meet the demands for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Eleven of the state's 14 counties have been deemed "primary natural disaster areas" by the United States Department of Agriculture due to substantial crop losses that began with a February deep freeze and continued though a summer marked by severe drought.