Greater Worcester

Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray, who is resigning from the state's second-highest office next week to lead the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, was awarded a medal this morning by Becker College President Robert E. Johnson, the college said.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is the lead institution in a new program funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grant it received with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Statistically and anecdotally, all signs seem to point to a growing rental housing market both across the...

Worcester possesses many of the ingredients that could help it emerge as a nationally-known research and entrepreneurship hub, including research universities and access to Boston's venture capital market, said Mark Rice, dean of Worcester Polytechnic's business school.

UMass Memorial Medical Center and registered nurses at its University campus reached a tentative contract agreement late last night that averted a one-day walkout that had been called for today.

Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray will resign June 2 to take a job with the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, he and the chamber announced this afternoon.

The Protector Group Insurance Agency of Worcester announced the retirement of its longtime president, Robert J. Vaudreuil,...

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of “A” for The Hanover Insurance Group of Worcester and its subsidiaries, the New Jersey-based ratings firm said.

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UMass Memorial Medical Center and nurses at its Memorial and Hahnemann campuses announced that they've reached a tentative, two-year agreement, avoiding a strike with that group after 18 months of negotiations. However, the same offer for nurses at the University campus has been pulled, the health care system said, opening the door for a scheduled one-day walkout by that union next Thursday.