Greater Worcester

Central Massachusetts professionals are getting hired and promoted at companies including National Grid, UMass Memorial Medical Group, AAFCPAs, and Ascentria Care Alliance.

“I’ve never been as worried about health care as I am right now."

While corporate profits have surged to near record levels, operators of prominent small businesses in Worcester have not seen the same growth.

Enrollment has hit a 10-year low at all five of the state universities and community colleges in Central Massachusetts, with a considerable drop between fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2023.

A former school building located at 22 Waverly St. in Worcester has been sold by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester to an Auburn-based corporation for $1.1 million.

Concerned about the tiny percentage of sports bettors who have so far used things like time or deposit limits, the Mass. Gaming Commission is working to convene a roundtable with operators, industry experts and more to talk about how they might be able to make responsible gambling tools "cool."

The governor said her administration "more than doubled" the list of programs whose funding can be withheld from non-compliant cities and towns.

Kim Miner, the former executive vice president and general counsel for the Worcester Red Sox, has been hired as the chief of staff for Boston Unity Soccer Partners.

The team has declined to give a purchase price on the sale to Diamond Baseball Holdings, but at the request of WBJ, a Holy Cross professor has estimated the team's valuation based on revenues, market size, and the new stadium.

More than a decade after Massachusetts enacted a landmark law designed to contain health care cost growth, the trend continues to head in the wrong direction, spawning warnings from regulators and industry leaders.