Hospitality

Indoor performances and recreational activities such as laser tag can resume next week in Massachusetts communities with lower COVID-19 transmission rates, and many businesses will also be permitted to increase their capacities, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday.

Health care employers in Massachusetts added more workers between 2008 and 2018 than any other industry, nudging the field's share of statewide employment upward to nearly one-fifth, according to a new report.

The City of Worcester will not loosen restaurant dining regulations after Gov. Charlie Baker amended the Massachusetts rules, which will otherwise begin Monday.

The Cannabis Control Commission filled in the blanks Thursday of its long-discussed marijuana home delivery rules, agreeing upon a framework that creates two types of delivery licenses and settling on a timeline that would have new cannabis industry rules in place in about a month.

Area restaurateurs and longtime friends Son Vo and Tam Le have officially opened Chashu Ramen + Izakaya at 38 Franklin St. in Worcester.

Bars in Massachusetts will remain closed until there is a vaccine or breakthrough treatment for COVID-19, but barstools in restaurants could be occupied as soon as Monday.

Like every other business, and especially those which are customer-facing, the company had to make swift adjustments in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Sudbury restaurateurs Reanna and Jordan Mackey, the duo behind the restaurant 29 Rustic, plan to open what the pair are calling a natural market in Stow later this fall, the business owners announced on Monday.

Three small businesses in downtown Fitchburg received loans totaling $55,000 from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., the development arm of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the organization announced on Friday. 

The planned $125-million mixed-use development surrounding the Polar Park baseball stadium in the Canal District will be smaller than anticipated and be realized about two years later than initially scheduled.