Government & Politics

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded $4.7 million to Worceste healthcare provider UMass Memorial Health for costs of testing, new equipment, and new staff due to COVID-19.

Massachusetts Lottery sales have improved in the past two months thanks in large part to interest in a huge Powerball jackpot, but officials remain worried a broader slowdown that left the agency tens of millions of dollars behind last year's pace will persist.

Every state in New England is poised to receive an above-average injection of federal infrastructure money, funding that could play a key role after years where the region's rate of investment lagged other states, a new report concluded.

The Worcester City Council voted at its Tuesday meeting to offer residential property owners the lowest available tax rate, at the expense of a higher commercial tax rate than business leaders would like.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp. granted $10,000 to the City of Fitchburg for the development of pop-up shops for local artisans, crafters, and entrepreneurs.

Regulators at the Mass. Gaming Commission can shift from hypotheticals to actual applications now that they have more than a dozen requests for sports betting licenses in hand, and the public scrubbing of those applications looks poised to kick off once the calendar flips to December.

Brenda Tomasetta closed her father's Sena's Barbershop on Grafton Hill and has now moved and joined forces with Kelly Collins at her barbershop, Studio C Hair Artistry, on Massasoit Road in Worcester.

The Massachusetts Restaurant Association wants to give restaurants and other small businesses the opportunity to push some of the credit card costs for restaurants onto consumers.

When Polar Park was first announced in August 2018, Worcester's pay-for-itself plan for it was centered around six proposed buildings from Boston developer Madison Properties. But that development has since significantly shrunk in size and been delayed.

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