Maura Healey

TradeSource Inc., a Rhode Island construction staffing firm with a branch in Natick has agreed to pay $230,000 in penalties resulting from a 2020 data breach.

Worcester cannabis company Bud’s Goods & Provisions in May settled a citation by the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office for a violation of the state’s wage and hour laws, after it was found to be withholding tips from employees.

An initiative petition seeking to change state liquor-licensing laws remains alive after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday ruled that Attorney General Maura Healey correctly certified it to appear before voters on November's ballot.

WBJ spoke to both Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty separately after the convention to ask about economic issues in Central Massachusetts and the commonwealth as a whole.

Preferred Laboratory LLC of Worcester and its owner, Vipin Adhlakha of Westfield, Ind., were implicated in a scheme that resulted in more than $2 million in false claims billed to the state insurance system MassHealth.

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.

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.

Attorney General Maura Healey is suing 13 companies that manufacture firefighting foam containing ubiquitous forever chemicals in hopes of getting the chemical companies to "pay back every last dollar our state has spent on their products to clean up the contamination."

In the latest round of the fight between Silicon Valley and Massachusetts regulators over whether workers for companies like Uber and Lyft should be considered full-time employees, the businesses are pushing a UCLA study showing gig workers have had an economic impact of $899 million in Worcester County.