Blackstone Valley

About half a year after a dramatic debate over whether to expand the state's bottle deposit law, a group backed by the food and beverage industry is seeking to scrap the whole deposit law in favor of a new recycling program.

Developer David Nunes was one of several aspiring casino developers to pay a $400,000 application fee to the state just before Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline, according to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.

Building on an existing undergraduate animal studies program, Becker College in Worcester has formed a school of animal studies, it announced today.

Under the state's expanded gaming legislation, a slots parlor and up to three resort-style casinos can be...

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

As we enter 2013, the MetroWest residential real estate market's performance over much of the past year...

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.

Maine-based veterinary diagnostic testing supplier Idexx Laboratories Inc., which has operations in North Grafton, has resolved a federal complaint by agreeing to drop exclusive business arrangements with a top distributor, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said.

As the country continues to shake off the effects of the recession that hit in 2007, MetroWest's...

About a decade ago, FIBA Technologies Inc. vacated its facility on Route 9 in Westborough to pursue...