Professional Services

The Hanover Insurance Group in Worcester is reporting a strong fourth quarter and year, with net income of $51.5 million and $186.2 million, respectively.

The former supervisory pharmacist of the New England Compounding Center connected with a 2012 meningitis outbreak killing 64 was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday.

These properties – which could host retail, housing, industrial or office complexes, or some mix – are practically hiding in plain sight, simply waiting for the right buyer or builder.

Marijuana companies can begin applying for Massachusetts recreational licenses in April and open stores in July, but federal changes this month indicating a shift toward a strict application of federal drug law law are threatening to derail the budding industry.

Behavioral and mental health services organization Pathways by Molina, former Hanover Insurance CEO Joseph Zubretsky's new employer, is closing its Worcester and Springfield locations.

Their work may not yield patents worth billions, but UMass Medical School researchers are conducting ambitious work trying to solve problems on the other side of the planet.

A Los Angeles-based investment group has filed a $5.75 million bid to purchase the Boston Herald newspaper in an attempt to outbid GateHouse Media's $5 million offer.

Homeowners and motorists benefiting from group insurance discounts might not have known that a 44-year-old state law threatened to increase their premiums. That possibility was avoided Friday with a stroke of Gov. Charlie Baker's pen.

Up to 70,000 people in Massachusetts who buy health plans through the state exchange will see premium increases of 25 percent or more.

There are more local options for women when it comes to issues of timing, such as the retrieval, freezing and preservation of ovarian eggs for later fertilization.