Greater Worcester

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After demand for its services led to almost unreasonable wait times at its two Worcester branches, Digital Federal Credit Union opened a third location in the city in November, where the staff has been busy educating people out of bad financial messes.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday detailed an agreement reached with the deans of the state's three dental medicine schools to introduce training for opioid abuse prevention and management into their core curriculums.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor has received nearly $600,000 to develop the algorithms for humanoid robots designed to fight fires aboard U.S. Navy ships.

The troubling worldwide signals of a potential recession are more smoke than fire and are unlikely to lead to a U.S. recession in 2016, according to an economist speaking Thursday in Worcester.

The latest MetroWest location for Chick-fil-A will open Feb. 18 and hire 110 full and part-time employees, according to the company.

The Front Street office towers have been renamed Mercantile Center as their owners pursue an aggressive timeline for interior renovations.

The lieutenant governor, Baker administration officials and municipal administrators on Tuesday testified in support of reforms that they said would give municipal government officials in Massachusetts more flexibility and control.

Civitas Solutions of Boston has acquired Worcester's Renaissance Adult Day Care center in a three-center deal as the firm looks to grow in Central Massachusetts.

Food bank and charity representatives plan to visit the State House Tuesday to seek increased funding for the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program.