Government & Politics

The Worcester School Committee filed a petition on Friday for the appointment of a mediator from the Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations to help reach a contract settlement between the school committee and the teachers’ union for the Worcester Public Schools, the Educational Association of Worcester.

Five Central Massachusetts municipalities were selected to take part in a new program to help them identify and address internet availability and affordability, device access and digital skills gaps in their communities. 

Anna Maria College in Paxton will receive $1 million in federal funding for its nursing programs and to upgrade its clinical simulation lab.

The Massachusetts Department of Revenue revealed Wednesday preliminary tax revenue collections for April were $4.782 billion, which is $2.162 billion, or 31.2%, below collections from April 2022.

The Worcester Business Journal will host the Massachusetts Energy Summit on May 12 at the DCU Center in Worcester.

Here’s all 264 professionals who has been named to a Power list & the year(s) they were listed.

Business professionals from organizations of all types and sizes hold some amount of power, but how you shape the economy and community is when you are truly influential.

Thousands of Massachusetts residents from marginalized backgrounds could gain health insurance coverage should policymakers move to expand eligibility criteria for state-subsidized plans and remove administrative hurdles, a report released Thursday found.

The only news outlet dedicated to solely covering Framingham, the 14th largest community in Massachusetts, will stop reporting news amid financial struggles as its sole journalist will become a spokesperson for the city’s government.

State officials next week plan to jump-start the process for creating the administration's economic development plan, a framework that all new governors must produce during their first year in office.