Greater Worcester

Former Worcester City Councilor and recent city council candidate Phil Palmieri, along with a trust belonging to Robert Lawlis Jr., sold a Shrewsbury Street office building for $2.3 million to Worcester investors.

Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. is seeking to build a new 35,000 square-foot warehouse, building on its existing campus at 12 New Bond St. in Worcester.

The New England Regional Headache Center will move to a new location at 23 Harvard St. in Worcester from its Prescott Street location on Sunday, following the purchase of the historic James Marble House.

Abby’s House, a Worcester nonprofit that provides shelter, housing, and advocacy for women with and without children, received funding from the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and the City of Worcester to renovate its existing shelter on Crown Street.

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $50 million grant to aid utility company National Grid’s $140 million initiative to modernize the electric grid.

The Senate on Thursday passed a bill aimed at closing gender and demographic wage gaps, which would require employers with 25 or more employees to disclose pay ranges when posting a job opening or offering certain promotions or transfers.

Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday outlined a novel approach to competing for federal aid, proposing legislation that would use $750 million in interest earned on the state's bulging rainy day fund to help attract billions of federal dollars up for grabs in a competition among states.

Worcester-based Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives officially opened its pilot biomanufacturing lab on Wednesday, which added 10 new laboratory spaces to the incubator in support of startups.

Unplanned hospital readmissions are viewed by health care analysts as an measure of system performance and quality, and new state data marks the inaugural look at readmission rates among people 18 or younger in Massachusetts.

Framing her new legislation as "historic" and "urgent," Gov. Maura Healey detailed her wide-ranging housing bill on Wednesday morning and speculated that its passage could provide a jolt for the 2024 construction season.