Greater Worcester

New professionals have joined Synergy and UMass Memorial Medical Group.

The situation in Central Massachusetts, where 15.6% of named executive officers are female, largely mirrors the Massachusetts rate of 16.1% determined in a statewide census.

For women workers especially, increased flexibility and remote work options have opened up new possibilities for balancing work and family responsibilities.

Halfway through her tenure as the university’s inaugural DEI fellow, Ilyasah Shabazz is helping Worcester State work to sustain an inclusive and welcoming environment

Venture X, a 15,000-square-foot co-working space in Worcester’s Mercantile Center, has officially opened its doors.

Massachusetts will receive $8 million to address the opioid crisis as part of a $350 million national settlement with Publicis Health.

An attorney for suspended Cannabis Control Commission Chair Shannon O'Brien said Thursday he is not aware of any federal investigation into his client and has not seen the subpoena that the Boston Globe reported Thursday had been sent to state officials in the fall by federal prosecutors seeking information on O'Brien.

Massachusetts was third in the New England region in union membership in 2023.

Worcester joined a growing list of municipalities no longer collecting community impact fees from cannabis businesses in January 2023, after collecting nearly $5.2 million in those fees from fiscal 2019 to 2023.

Tenet Healthcare Corp., the Texas-based, for-profit healthcare services company that owns Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell four hospitals that the company operates in Southern California.