Greater Worcester

When Spectrum Health Services shuts the doors to its only outpatient methadone clinic in Maine, it will be a first for the 46-year-old Worcester-based substance abuse treatment services provider.

Business growth in MetroWest is continuing the same measured pace in 2015 that the annual Business Climate Survey found last year, with companies expecting moderate growth in jobs and revenue throughout this year.

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority is adding bus route that will run between three of the city's colleges throughout the academic year, in an agreement with the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA).

(UPDATED at 1:52 p.m.) USRowing's Masters National Championships is returning to Lake Quinsigamond next year, Destination Worcester said today. The competition will be held Aug. 18-21 and will be hosted by Destination Worcester and the Quinsigamond Rowing Association.

Gov. Charlie Baker called the death of a two-year girl and the hospitalization of a 22-month-old girl living in the same Auburn foster home over the weekend "tragic and frustrating," as he promised full criminal and internal investigations to determine how the incidents occurred and how they could have been prevented.

Wyman-Gordon has a rich history in Worcester, dating back to 1883 when it was founded as a...

When Babson College came in first in Money Magazine's 2014 college rankings for educational value, beating out mainstays such as Harvard, it served notice to academia that the trade- and career-focused schools that had been perceived as ankle-biters to the established big dogs had drawn blood.

Central Massachusetts, especially Worcester, is home to a number of nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations. Last year, more than 30 percent of all land in the city was tax exempt.

Anyone who has not driven or walked around downtown Worcester within the last decade may well be left stunned by the changes that have taken place. After years of talk, but not a lot of action, efforts to make the downtown a more walkable center are well underway.

It's no mistake that, throughout Massachusetts, there's more hospital signage showing up either on commercial sites, or on empty land that will give rise to satellite facilities under the umbrella of larger health care systems. That, in turn, is creating new business for architects and construction companies.