Hospitality

Bri’s Sweet Treats, a Leicester-based chocolatier owned by Briana Azier, will open a location in the Worcester Public Market, expecting to begin serving her products in mid-January.

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. of Tallahassee, Florida, will pay a $14,502 fine after reaching a settlement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Fitchburg State University will receive $2 million in federal money for a new downtown black box theater.

The Gaming Commission on Thursday moved towards narrowing down the date for the launch of legal in-person sports betting in Massachusetts and it appears as if the first bets could be placed during a "soft launch" on Monday, Jan. 30, 2023 by people hand-picked by the commission and the betting companies.

Certain high-profile subsectors of the manufacturing industry, like marijuana and beer, will slow and search for new revenues.

In December 2022, the WBJ Editorial staff made 10 predictions of what this year’s headlines would bring. They were bold, and they were mostly wrong. We got three right. Here are our predictions and what actually happened.

Every December, the WBJ Editorial staff predicts possible news events for the coming year. Here are our predictions and why they will happen.

Daniel Yarnie, co-owner of Northborough real estate development company Polar Views, LLC, purchased a former Cornerstone Bank branch in Oxford for $750,000.

Massachusetts employers added 17,300 jobs in November, labor officials announced Friday, putting the state within striking distance of returning to a pre-pandemic level of employment.

AKROS Development owner Zachary Kiritsy purchased the former site of Fairway Beef in Worcester for $900,000.