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New York-based GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Telegram & Gazette, the MetroWest Daily News and dozens of other daily and weekly newspapers in the state, is spending $1.2 million to acquire the Worcester Magazine and other five small papers in Central Massachusetts.

Pittsburgh-based Dick's Sporting Goods is ending sales of assault-style rifles and will no longer sell any firearm to anyone under 21, including at its Massachusetts stores.

New York-based GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, is acquiring a small Central Massachusetts media company, which owns Worcester Magazine.

Getting around Worcester just got easier for Assumption College students.

JOHN P. BUDAJ is the new vice president of information technology at Fallon Health in Worcester. Budaj...

Nearly $1 million in recycling grants has been awarded to six companies -- including two in Central Massachusetts -- to enable better processing of food, wood and plastics.

Toys R Us plans to close 182 stores in the U.S., including the Millbury, Northborough, Bellingham and Framingham locations.

A federal judge has allowed the government to take control of and sell properties - including the Chameleon and Blackstone Tap buildings in Worcester - owned by Kevin Perry, Jr. a former restaurateur and businessman set to serve at least 14 years in prison for drug and money laundering offenses

Worcester Business Journal's annual Economic Forecast issue gives us a chance to take a step back and reflect on everything that happened in the past year, which we use to predict what will come for the Central Massachusetts business community in 2018.

A local electrical contractor has reached substantial completion of a lighting project at toll plazas along a large stretch of the Mass Pike through Central Massachusetts.