Greater Worcester

There are significant gaps in the expectations parents have for their children's futures after high school, divided sharply by race and income demographics, according to poll results released Thursday.

Ava Callender Concepcion, acting chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, started Thursday’s agency meeting by announcing that Shawn Collins, the executive director of the commission and the person most responsible for its day-to-day operations, will resign.

Bus drivers and monitors employed in Hudson with First Student have voted to join Teamsters Local 170, a Worcester-based union.

Unionized janitors and an association of the region’s largest cleaning contractors union agreed to a tentative agreement early Wednesday, avoiding a strike that could have seen 12,500 area cleaners walk off the job.

A third of all UMass students will qualify for free tuition paid for by the new income...

Fidelity Bank of Leominster has named Joann Marsili to the newly created role of executive vice president, chief growth and client experience officer.

Citing the impacts of high inflation and interest rates, Massachusetts retailers don't expect a big bump in holiday season shopping sales this year.

Gov. Maura Healey removed the acting prefix and made Monica Tibbits-Nutt its full-fledged transportation secretary Monday, putting...

GreatNeck, a tool manufacturing company headquartered in New York, has sold a Millbury property containing three manufacturing buildings for $3.5 million.

The National Institutes of Health have awarded $1.1 million to a Worcester Polytechnic Institute-led research project aimed at reducing racial bias in care for premature infants.