Greater Worcester

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...

Academic, business and political leaders brainstormed ways Wednesday to attract more young people into manufacturing, from improving education to tapping the awe-inducing capabilities of information technology.

UMass Memorial Health Care announced Wednesday the elimination of 103 full-time equivalent positions at its Worcester locations in the system's latest round of layoffs, which began in March.

Siemens AG, the German conglomerate that makes steel mills in Worcester, announced $660 million in software grants Wednesday to support manufacturing programs at Massachusetts vocational schools and colleges.