Greater Worcester

For the 2024 Outstanding Women in Business awards, WBJ received 51 nominations for 41 nominees.

The Outstanding Women in Business awards have long been one of WBJ’s hardest honors to win.

Bell-Peña and the nonprofit she founded are now hard at work again addressing the original core mission: Supporting those exploited by the sex trade.

Kim Golinski made the transition from craft beer to professional sports on Aug. 1, when she officially became the team president of the Worcester Railers.

David Ginisi has been named the new role of chief marketing and communications officer for social service nonprofit Worcester Community Action Council.

Regulators hope to present their latest framework for the rules that will govern establishments where adults could use marijuana together in a social setting before the end of this year, more than seven years since the Cannabis Control Commission started wrestling with the topic.

Four Central Massachusetts businesses have received a combined $449,354 from a program designed to assist small and midsize manufacturers.

Heywood Healthcare, the parent company Heywood Hospital in Gardner and Athol Hospital, will have a confirmation hearing on its plan to exit bankruptcy on Monday.

Evelyn Darling, executive director of the Downtown Worcester Business Improvement District, has stepped down from the role.

MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham is in one of the most tenuous financial standings of all Central Massachusetts hospitals, according to a new report from the Center for Health Information & Analysis analyzing the financial stability of hospitals in the state.