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The Barr Foundation is giving the Greater Worcester Community Foundation $1 million this year for Worcester arts organizations.

Worcester, Fitchburg, Framingham and Marlborough are among eight communities across Massachusetts to make a new incentive program targeting empty storefronts.

Massachusetts has a new law enabling public sector unions to recover costs associated with representing non-members.

Massachusetts employers added 6,700 jobs during August and the unemployment rate held at 2.9%, state labor officials reported Friday morning.

Framingham brewer Jack's Abby has always been known for its German-style lagers, using techniques modeled after old Bavarian methods. Now, Jack's Abby will go a step further with its first Oktoberfest.

The new owner of a women's hockey team in Boston is a Framingham investment firm, Cannon Capital.

A Worcester man and owner of a temp agency has been indicted by a Worcester County grand jury for fraud and evading more than $110,000 in workers compensation payments.

The American Red Cross is discontinuing community and mobile blood drives in Western and Central Massachusetts, resulting in the elimination of 52 jobs.

A 20,000-square-foot office building on Route 119 in Littleton has sold for $1.7 million.

Back in March, we wrote in this space about how pending retirements among longtime CEOs and executive...