Central Mass. South

Sturbridge has launched a Saturday tourism shuttle on a trial basis to run among key points in town thanks to a $12,000 grant from the Sturbridge Tourist Association.

IPG Photonics' Chairman and CEO Valentin Gapontsev, a Worcester resident and an American citizen, has been listed as a Russian oligarch by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

With this year's WBJ 40 Under Forty, you see the people who could turn the cultural renaissance from a well-started idea to a full-blown reality.

A real estate company based in Cleveland has bought a Webster housing complex, Hartley Terrace, for just over $4 million.

Worcester State University criminal justice majors will be able to get a master's degree in counter-terrorism a year ahead of time under a new agreement with Nichols College in Dudley.

Harrington Healthcare will anchor a new 43,000-square-foot office building on Route 20 in Sturbridge.

xford-based Swissturn has never drug tested prospective employees. Making sure employees are sober and aren't bringing marijuana to work is now the priority rather than policing the private lives of workers, President Ken Mandile told the WBJ in an interview.

The main entrance of the company's new digs in Southbridge is highlighted by displays of kits used by some of the company's most famous clients, including drummers from Slipknot, Green Day and Imagine Dragons.

Bed-and-breakfasts used to be the little guys on the block in hospitality before anyone could rent their place on Airbnb. But in Central Mass., at least, they're holding their own.

Central Massachusetts is square in the middle of a robust gaming market without a casino to call our own. But, really, we don't need one.