Greater Worcester

Illinois-based AbbVie reported that worldwide net sales rose 5.4 percent, to $4.6 billion in the first quarter of 2014, over 2013. The pharmaceutical firm also reported net earnings of $980 million or 61 cents per share.

Cable operator Charter Communications is expanding its Worcester operations with plans to renovate the former Sam's Club building on Barber Street, the company announced.

After five months of daily service out of Worcester Regional Airport, JetBlue has reached its 50,000th passenger,...

Postal worker union members and community activists are slated to protest today at Staples sites around the country, including the Auburn location.

A Southborough-based group has proposed an expansive mixed-use development at the former Spag's site on Route 9 in Shrewsbury.

Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Care is partnering with a Minneapolis IT company to integrate patients' end-of-life directives into its electronic medical records system, a measure that's expected to reduce costs.

The federal government is chipping in $1 million to help establish a technology incubator and innovation operation inside the former Telegram & Gazette building in downtown Worcester.

Unemployment in Central Massachusetts dropped sharply in March and is down from March of last year, the Patrick administration said today.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has picked an alumnus and business executive as its first entrepreneur-in-residence, a role the...

Mary Lou Retelle, the executive vice president at Anna Maria College, will become interim president of the...