Greater Worcester

Unemployment in Central Massachusetts held fairly steady over the past month but is markedly higher than this point last year.

Boston Red Sox owner John W. Henry announced that he plans to sell the Telegram & Gazette...

The commonwealth has chipped in another $11 million for the development of Worcester's CitySquare, state and local officials announced Tuesday.

Tufts Health Plan of Watertown, which insures 118,000 in Central Massachusetts, announced it has opened an office in downtown Worcester. Located at 1 Mercantile St., the office will serve as a satellite office for Tufts' employer-sponsored and Medicare plans, the company said.

Corporate Environmental Advisors, Inc. (CEA) of West Boylston was awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to provide federal clients with environmental consulting, remediation and reclamation services.

AbbVie Inc. said its oral treatment for hepatitis C showed about 96 percent of patients had no detectable levels of the virus after 12 weeks.

Michael O'Brien will step down Jan. 5 after a decade as Worcester's top appointed official to take a position as a real estate management executive.

A couple who claimed that mismanagement by doctors at UMass Memorial Center led to cerebral palsy in their daughter earned $4.25 million in a settlement last week.

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce has hired Christina M. Andreoli as vice president, a newly-created position the chamber said will free up chamber President Timothy Murray to focus fully on strategy.

Increased freight activity led to 11-percent revenue growth for Providence & Worcester Railroad in the third quarter, and net income of $593,000 after a third-quarter 2012 loss of $381,000.