Central Mass. South

The moment the ballot initiative passed in November 2016 allowing for recreational marijuana in Massachusetts, economic development officials across the state should have been sharpening their pencils.

The Baker Administration has given $784,000 to five sites in four Central Massachusetts communities to help clean contaminated properties.

Harrington Hospital has been designated a lung cancer screening center by the American College of Radiology.

IPG Photonics' growth in its CEO's home country of Russia has coincided with a $45 million investment in 2010 from a Russian government-backed business entity.

Oxford-based laser maker IPG Photonics saw first quarter profit decline 48% and revenues decline 12% year-over-year due to a challenging global economic picture.

The CEO of IPG Photonics and the U.S. Department of the Treasury will meet before a magistrate judge in an attempt to settle a lawsuit challenging the Treasury's designation of the executive as a Russian oligarch

Bookstores are making a comeback across the country, with the New York-based American Booksellers Association seeing a 50% rise in the past decade in the number of its member locations.

Median single-family home prices hit $268,250 in Worcester County in March, outpacing state price increases from last year, which across Massachusetts marked a record high.

Nichols College will begin two new marketing majors and a finance major this fall it says will better prepare students for shifting industry demands in the coming years.

Fallon Health is looking to move its elder care program to a new medical building on Grove Street in Worcester, pending regulatory approvals.