Greater Worcester

The Central Massachusetts Business Confidence Index fell into pessimistic territory in September after a positive July and August.

While the wait continues for a housing bond bill, the Healey administration's housing production vision is slowly coming into view, and it will feature more than 20 policy changes designed to drive up the state's lowest-in-the-nation vacancy rate, according to the state's housing secretary.

Shine Initiative, a Worcester youth mental health nonprofit, has named its director of development to be its interim executive director position following the resignation of current executive director Fred Kaelin.

A hearing that had been scheduled for Friday on the preliminary injunction that Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O'Brien is seeking to stop Treasurer Deborah Goldberg "from continuing her unlawful removal of Chair O'Brien from her position" has been canceled.

With peak season for respiratory illnesses like the flu and COVID-19 approaching, the Department of Public Health on Thursday launched a refreshed dashboard to track trends and provide the public with helpful information focused on COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial syndrome (RSV).

The Angel Fund for ALS Research in Wakefield has donated $711,000 to researchers at Worcester’s UMass Chan Medical School.

Root & Press, a cafe and bookshop near Tatnuck Square in Worcester, will close its current location and move to Shrewsbury Street.

Newly launched nonprofit news site The Worcester Guardian has named its founding board of directors, including the current CEO and a former executive from the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.

A company registered to Worcester-based Harr Motor Group President Michael Gross purchased the former home of Regional Builders in the Greendale neighborhood of Worcester for $825,000.

Under the bill, any public or private employer with 25 or more employees posting a job would need to list the annual salary or hourly wages they "reasonably and in good faith" expect to pay.