Greater Worcester

Ocean State Job Lot’s Westborough location is about to become one the big box’s largest stores.

An Appeals Court judge has temporarily blocked Shannon O'Brien's return as chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission by at least a week.

More than 90,000 housing units have been completed or entered development since Gov. Maura Healey took office, she said Wednesday, chipping away at the state’s estimated need for 220,000 homes by the end of the decade.

Bountiful Farms, a Lakeville-based cannabis wholesaler, will soon open one of its first-ever recreational retail locations, with one set to debut in Framingham.

A federal law signed by President Donald Trump could leave as many as 203,000 more Massachusetts residents without health insurance, according to a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation report.

The College of the Holy Cross has added a new degree program to its course catalogue.

October 18 will not only kick off the Worcester Railers Hockey Club season, it will mark the introduction of a new member to the Railers family: a dog.

“The settlement is a public vindication that underscores a toxic culture of retaliation and corruption at the Cannabis Control Commission."

The evidence that Treasurer Deborah Goldberg relied on does not remotely suffice to support her firing of Shannon O'Brien.

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that Treasurer Deborah Goldberg unlawfully fired Shannon O'Brien as chair of the Cannabis Control Commission and ordered that O'Brien immediately be reinstated to the job.