Greater Worcester

Lawyer Christopher Collins, who worked for Unum for 31 years, has joined Mirick O'Connell as the firm continues to grow its litigation team.

The Worcester housing market has been ranked among the most affordable in the state, according to a home listing report from Coldwell Banker Real Estate.

Charles River Laboratories will re-open a Shrewsbury lab that has been shuttered since 2010 with a mixture...

The University of Massachusetts Medical School has declined to comment on a report that a Veterans Administration (VA) health care facility proposed for construction on campus may not come to fruition.

AFC Doctors Express, the urgent care services company that is partnering with the Central Massachusetts Independent Physicians Association (CMIPA) to provide urgent care to its patients, celebrated the opening of its first Worcester location on Stafford Street Wednesday evening.

An 82,000-square-foot parcel in Auburn has sold for $725,000 and will be used by BJ's Wholesale Club to build a gas station near its Route 20 store, according to NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs of Worcester.

The chief information officer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Deborah Scott, was named to Computerworld's 2016 Premier 100 Technology Leaders list.

Eighty percent of young professionals in the Greater Boston area rank access to public transit as "very important" in their calculation of choosing where to live, according to poll results that will be formally released later Monday.

GLEN MARTIN was promoted at Continental Woodcraft, a millwork subsidiary of BlueHive Strategic Environments of Worcester, to vice president. He was previously manufacturing manager for the company. Martin, who joined BlueHive in 2012, formerly worked for Iaccarino and Son Inc.

Standing in front of a crowd of cheerful onlookers on Oct. 26 at the announcements of a $36-million renovation to two downtown Worcester office towers and of 500 UMass Memorial Health Care workers relocating downtown, Lt. Gov. Karen Polito was all too happy to tout all that had been done to improve the city.