Greater Worcester

Two future birth centers in Worcester and Boston have secured state funding to help cover the costs...

Hendler Family Brewing was already the largest brewer in Central Massachusetts.

Business confidence in Central Massachusetts rose in September following a historic low in August, yet remained in pessimistic territory.

The future site of a proposed condominium development in Shrewsbury has been sold for $5 million to the developer behind the plan. 

Preliminary construction has begun at a long-vacant lot at 5 Madison St. in Worcester, the future site of a six-story, 110-unit apartment building.

A new urgent care option has arrived in Central Massachusetts as New Hampshire-based ConvenientMD has opened its second Worcester clinic located at 18 Belmont Ave.

Steward Health Care's retreat from Massachusetts is continuing, with the bankrupt company officially moving in court Monday to abandon the under-construction Norwood Hospital property and close four affiliated outpatient clinics nearby no later than Nov. 5.

The Cannabis Control Commission is poised to vote later this month on regulations that would finally put into motion policy changes they agreed to last year, and which struggling cannabis delivery businesses say would make a big difference to their bottom lines.

The City of Worcester has agreed to extend management of the DCU Center by ASM Global for an additional 10 years.

Victor Ambros, a scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has been named the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of microRNA.