Northbridge

Private housing developers are stepping up to take on once- thriving, but now-abandoned industrial buildings that have created blight in the Central Massachusetts communities where they used to attract workers to a century ago.

Kingstown, R.I.-based closeout retailer Ocean State Job Lot has purchased its building in the Whitinsville section of Northbridge.

Framingham-based New England Compounding Center (NECC), which has been linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak that has killed 39 people and sickened more than 600, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it announced.

The 11 Massachusetts towns in the Blackstone Valley are not thought of as large economic centers. But,...

When state officials decided in the 1990s to upgrade Route 146 and widen the connection between Worcester,...

UniBank this week will mark the opening of its first full-service Worcester branch with a ribbon-cutting ceremony...