Greater Worcester

Greater Worcester is a good place for businesses to operate, but a looser regulatory environment could make the region even better, especially in the face of an increasingly competitive global marketplace, according to four business leaders who engaged in a panel discussion Wednesday morning.

Worcester has been ranked fourth in the nation for climbing medical procedure costs, narrowly beating Boston but falling behind Springfield, according to a new report.

Primetals Technologies is upgrading a wire-rod mill in Turkey to allow for expanded production.

Two printer management companies – one in Shrewsbury and the other in Southbridge – have become one, they announced Friday.

More than 2,200 unionized nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester have voted to ratify one-year contracts after negotiations that the union called “relatively smooth.”

YOU Inc. has tapped longtime local leader David P. Forsberg to lead the human services agency while it searches for a new CEO.

Twenty-seven Central Massachusetts companies are among nearly 200 companies in the Bay State that have been awarded state-funded workforce training grants.

John E. Luth and his wife, Dr. Joanne Chouinard-Luth, have donated $32.5 million to the College of the Holy Cross, the school announced Tuesday.

Webster Five Cents Savings Bank has asked for the state's approval to move its downtown Worcester branch around the corner from Commercial Street to the former Mechanics Bank tower on Front Street, the bank announced Monday.

We see it every year: veteran public officials running unopposed for re-election, which can mean one of...