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Opening a supervised drug injection site in Massachusetts would require a new law, Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders said Wednesday, noting that such a proposal remains "clearly illegal."

Deborah Enos, a longtime health insurance and health care executive, has been elected to Fallon Health's board of directors in Worcester.

In the years just before the number of opioid-related deaths skyrocketed in Massachusetts and the nation, Worcester became the opioid painkiller capital of New England.

Fitchburg State University has been given $65,000 in state funding to help redevelop Fitchburg's Main Street and Worcester's Main South neighborhood has been given $55,000 for facade and public-space improvements.

A Providence executive search firm has opened its first Massachusetts office on Park Avenue in Worcester.

Big Y, a Springfield grocery chain with six Central Massachusetts locations, is eliminating plastic bags at all checkout aisles.

More than two years after the entertainment club Jillian's closed its Worcester location, an O'Reilly Auto Parts is slated to take its place.

Marlborough Mayor Arthur Vigeant wants to make it easier for employees and residents in the city to make it to the nearest MBTA commuter rail station in Southborough.

The Massachusetts unemployment rate stayed flat at 3.0% in June, still beating the national rate, which ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 3.7%.

Rotmans Furniture, a family-run Worcester furniture retailer for more than five decades, has officially been acquired by Vystar, which longtime Rotmans chief executive Steve Rotman also leads as CEO.