Central Mass. South

Single-family home prices rose in November, most drastically in Westborough, Natick and Southborough, which all surpassed $600,000 in median home price.

Homes are being sold in Massachusetts again after months of slow sales, including in Worcester County, where 762 single-family homes were sold in November.

An Oxford-based manufacturer of CPAP machines cleaning devices, SoClean, is being purchased by a Toronto-based health care firm.

The trends are going in the right direction for homeowners: an increase in prices and a sharp drop this year in foreclosures, both in Central Massachusetts and across the state. A tight supply market means finding a home is more difficult.

This past year was huge for the Worcester restaurant, entertainment and hospitality scene, with exciting announcements and openings.

Although biomanufacturing has been a bit slow to take hold in the region, there's only optimism for the budding industry.

The clean energy industry added over 4,000 new jobs in the past year, easily outpacing overall employment growth in Massachusetts, according to a new report.

A local electrical contractor has reached substantial completion of a lighting project at toll plazas along a large stretch of the Mass Pike through Central Massachusetts.

Two friends working at Shrewsbury hair salon Scizzors will open a new salon called Page Boy Hair Studio by March 1 in the Canal District.

Price Chopper in Hopkinton and Market 32 in Sutton are one of several of the chain's stores to begin a partnership with grocery delivery service Instacart on Wednesday.