Greater Worcester

State public health officials have scheduled public hearings on Steward Health Care's plans to close Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer later this month.

Sutton-based Concierge Physical Therapy will open a new, larger facility down the road from its previous location, after securing a U.S. Small Business Administration loan from the Worcester Business Development Corporation and Auburn-based bank Webster Five.

After two months of decline, business confidence among Central Massachusetts employers was back on the rise in July, though the region’s score remained in pessimistic territory. 

With two of the seven commercial spaces in the building now with tenants, 14,418 square feet of space in The Revington remains available.

"If you build a nice affordable development in 10 years that's great, but by then Massachusetts's low-income residents will be living in Rhode Island," Progressive Mass Director Jonathan Cohn said.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge on Tuesday approved the agreement that Massachusetts state government made to provide $30 million in advance Medicaid payments to keep a handful of Steward Health Care hospitals here open through August as the company tries to sell them.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester finds itself in a legal dispute with a wealthy alumnus who donated millions towards the construction of the college’s performing arts center.

Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday she is "thrilled" with Kamala Harris' selection of Tim Walz as her running mate, calling herself a "proud colleague" of the second-term Minnesota governor.

The federal government is awarding $389 million to the New England states for regional electric infrastructure upgrades.

A California-based chicken restaurant chain undergoing rapid expansion – with rapper Drake among its investors – has its sights on opening a Worcester location.