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The Hospital for Behavioral Medicine, a UMass Memorial Health Care facility in Worcester, has sold for $27 million.

Recipients of $178,000 in grants from a community health fund are getting help in improving access to health care in Worcester.

More than four dozen lawmakers from both parties are urging legislative leaders to pass a bill delaying implementation of the state's new paid family and medical leave program by three months.

Longtime prominent Worcester businessman Frank Carroll has been honored for his business career and charitable work by Anna Maria College.

AquaBounty, the Maynard-based grower of bioengineered salmon, has begun producing the fish at its main facility in Indiana. 

Assumption College's new business school will be named for David Grenon, an honorary alumnus whose family has given a large donation to the Worcester school.

Fitchburg State University has signed nursing-degree agreements with community colleges in Worcester, Gardner, Bedford and Fall River.

The number of college students enrolled in Massachusetts continued to fall this spring — down 1.7% in the past year and 6% in the past five years.

More than 160 communities in Massachusetts have restricted the sale of flavored tobacco products in some way. Legislators are hoping to enact a ban statewide.

Top Worcester public officials and counterparts in higher education, real estate and economic development have thrown their weight behind the governor's plan to increase the pace of new home construction to temper prices.