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Collaborative research between Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Lowell is getting a $111,000 funding boost from both schools.

The family that owns Purdue Pharma has reportedly rejected demands from a group of state attorneys general that they give up a greater share of their personal fortune in a potential settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits against the company that makes and sells OxyContin.

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Summit Montessori School, with 100 students through sixth grade, is planning a major expansion of its Pleasant Street site in Framingham.

Legislators on Beacon Hill heard from a range of speakers Wednesday urging further action to improve the state's rate of opioid overdose deaths.

Commuting in and out of Worcester or Fitchburg on the MBTA commuter rail costs $4,646 a year, a price that's far too high for many people in those cities and others, a new report finds.

Hopkinton startup drugmaker Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals has extended its cash runway beyond the end of 2021 thanks to a $20 million convertible debt financing agreement.

When Worcester-area residents look to move out of Central Massachusetts, it's most often for Greater Boston. The Boston area, though, tends to look to Providence first before looking west to Worcester, according to a new report.

YOU Inc., a Worcester child welfare nonprofit, has named a longtime executive as its new interim president and CEO.