Greater Worcester

Education reformer and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Gabrieli has been tapped by Gov. Charlie Baker to chair the Board of Higher Education replacing Charles Desmond. Baker on Tuesday afternoon also announced that Sheila Harrity, superintendent of Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School District and a former Principal at Worcester Technical High School, would take a seat on the board replacing Keith Peden.

Central Mass Landscapes has purchased 7 Clapp St. in Worcester from Peterson Oil Co.

The Bridge of Central Massachusetts, a Worcester-based human services provider, has a new leader: Kenneth J. Bates, who has moved over from the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Just three days after the head of the panel pushing for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Boston addressed Worcester-area business executives, the leaders of a group opposed to the effort warned that the costs could well exceed projections and not provide economic benefits.

The pending departure of the Worcester Sharks will leave Central Massachusetts without a professional sports team, something it has enjoyed for all but one of the last 21 years. But will landing another minor league sport here — be it hockey, baseball or something else — amount to more than a field of dreams?

Worcester's current median residential tax bill is $3,454, while the median commercial tax bill is $8,716. For...

(Updated Friday at 6:15 p.m.) A plan to consolidate two patient-care units at Clinton Hospital is meeting with opposition from the union that represents its nurses.

The state has released $300,000 in funds toward a Route 20 sewer project in Worcester that will help spur development, officials announced earlier this week.

A national real estate investment firm has purchased the office buildings at One and Two Chestnut place in downtown Worcester for $14 million.

The future of the old Spag's site on Route 9 in Shrewsbury is continuing to take shape, with two new tenants bolstering the “high end” feel that the proposed Lakeway Commons plaza brings to the neighborhood, said Jay Thomas, chairman of the Lakeway Business District Association.