Blackstone Valley

First Wind, a Boston-based renewable energy company, announced Monday that it's begun solar projects in Millbury and Warren that will generate power for the University of Massachusetts Lowell and UMass Medical School in Worcester.

Plainridge Racecourse in Plainville announced a business arrangement Tuesday that track officials hope will revive its bid for a slot parlor license.

Six weeks before a townwide voter referendum that will either kill or push their plan to the next level, representatives from Mass Gaming & Entertainment LLC (MGE) presented their plans for a $200-million slots parlor in Millbury Monday evening, saying the project would improve traffic in the area.

The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Grafton has announced plans to renovate and expand its teaching hospitals through a $68 million project.

The odds of Central Massachusetts becoming home to the state's only slots parlor improved Monday after the state gaming commission ruled the developers for the proposed site in Plainville as unqualified.

With Leominster and Millbury officials having signed host community agreements with developers, there are two Central Massachusetts...

Two Central Massachusetts communities will now vie for the state's lone slots parlor license after Millbury selectmen on Tuesday approved a host community agreement with the developer, Mass Gaming & Entertainment.

Residents of Millbury got a first glimpse at the $200-million slots parlor Mass Gaming & Entertainment (MGE) is hoping to develop near the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley outdoor mall.

Two of the four developers vying for the state's single slots license passed initial background checks and received approval from the Gaming Commission Thursday to continue with the licensing process.

Mass Gaming & Entertainment LLC (MGE), the company that initially proposed building a slots parlor on a 14-acre site near Kelley Square in Worcester, is now looking to neighboring Millbury as a potential host.