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A mixed-use building in Worcester’s Canal District has been sold for $625,000 to a Millbury-based corporation.

State public health officials on Thursday detailed steps the cannabis industry should be taking to prevent work-related asthma.

Ava Callender Concepcion, acting chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, started Thursday’s agency meeting by announcing that Shawn Collins, the executive director of the commission and the person most responsible for its day-to-day operations, will resign.

Amid a tight labor market, industries must be innovative to keep operations moving.

After a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana was approved by Massachusetts voters in the 2012 election, finding a bank that was willing to provide services to a cannabis business was a bit like trying to buy marijuana before it was legal.

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission moved to re-appoint Ava Callender Concepcion as the agency’s active chair after a lengthy hour-and-a-half debate Thursday morning that initially sought to replace Concepcion as acting chair amid the uncertainty following the removal of Shannon O’Brien as leader of the CCC board.

A Sturbridge hotel has been sold for $3.38 million to a Sharon-based corporation.

The annual Harvest Cup will be held this weekend at the DCU Center in Worcester.

New cannabis industry rules that seek to increase equity in the cannabis industry and add oversight to host community agreements have gone into effect.

Shoppers World, a shopping center on the border of Framingham and Natick, has been sold for $187.13 million to...