Hospitality

Massachusetts’ average gas price rose 23 cents in the past week to find a record high of $4.96 per gallon of regular unleaded.

While Democrats in other parts of the country feel like they and their ideas are increasingly under duress at the national level, a parade of elected officials on Saturday urged Massachusetts Democrats to not become complacent with the almost universal Democratic control of elected offices here.

Massachusetts Democrats on Saturday afternoon endorsed Maura Healey's quest to move from the attorney general's office to the governor's suite but also put Sonia Chang-Díaz on the September primary ballot, ensuring that Healey will have some intraparty competition before she could turn her full attention to any Republican opponents.

The employees of the Starbucks at 11 East Central St. in Worcester have voted unanimously to unionize, according to a letter Friday from the workers posted to the Twitter account of Boston Starbucks Workers United.

Webster Plaza, a two-building, 70,600-square-foot retail strip in Webster, sold for $5.3 million, according to a Thursday press release from NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs, the Worcester real estate agency which brokered the sale.

A Milford hotel, which was up for auction, sold for $5.9 million, according to a foreclosure deed in the Worcester South District Registry of Deeds.

Worcester Business Journal spoke to Democratic candidates for governor Sonia Chang-Díaz and Maura Healey ahead of the party's convention in Worcester, to ask about their stances on the state’s economic issues, particularly how they pertain to Central Massachusetts.

Trivia question: What kitchen task was this device invented by the Hamblin & Russell Manufacturing Co. used for?

For the first time since rewriting the voter-approved legalization law in the summer of 2017, Massachusetts lawmakers are poised this session to reform state cannabis policy as the House and Senate have each now approved legislation targeting some of the most persistent issues in the young industry.

A pub-style restaurant and bar called 107 Tap has been approved to open on Water Street in Worcester, run by Jefferson Mararian, who owned another Water Street bar for 12 years.