Greater Worcester

With their recently announced agreement to sell the old Worcester County Courthouse, officials in Worcester have removed a large obstacle toward the city's goal of giving the downtown area new life. Recent announcements of several developments move the city closer to its goal of having a walkable, multi-use urban core.

The era of clear, efficient long-distance communication has long since arrived. Workers can hop on conference calls...

With three new hotels under development in and around downtown, Worcester is on track to boost its...

Time and time again, data have shown that when a film production shoots in a particular location,...

Becker College's new data science degree program hired Feyzi R. Bagirov of Boston, naming him founding director of the program, the college said Thursday in a statement.

AllCare Plus Pharmacy Inc. recently purchased an office building in Northborough, and will relocate its headquarters there from Worcester, according to a statement from Kelleher & Sadowsky Associates.

A new report says jobs in the Massachusetts human services sector grew almost 48 percent between 2003 and 2011.

Who earns more money: a health care worker or a fast-food worker? It depends on where they work. Fast-food workers were famously victorious in Seattle when they got the city to adopt a $15-per-hour minimum wage, a gradual increase that begins this year. That was done under the union-backed “Fight for $15,” which launched in 2012. Since then, low-wage workers from other sectors have joined the cause, including healthcare workers, who in Massachusetts sometimes earn only the state's minimum wage of $9 per hour.

Rome Building Products of Worcester, a distributor of exterior building materials, has been acquired by ABC Supply Co. of Beloit, Wis.

Lincoln Medical or Worcester has purchased an office building at 101 Pleasant St. in Worcester, from Liberty Assembly of God, based in Shrewsbury.