Greater Worcester

Massachusetts employers added 15,400 jobs in August while the statewide unemployment rate hovered at a near-historic low, labor officials announced Friday.

People are on the move at Fallon Health, Nichols College, and Cornerstone Bank.

If there is an industry that stands to dramatically contribute to climate change mitigation, it’s building design, and Central Massachusetts architects say they’re poised for the challenge.

Hospital systems are waiting, monitoring, and responding as COVID cases rise, even as they remain far below peak levels.

Shannon O’Brien, chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, has been suspended from her role.

Dr. Linda Maykel has been appointed to chair the Quinsigamond Community College board of trustees.

Girls Inc. of Worcester has named Tiffany Lillie as its new CEO, months after its longtime CEO was put on leave after allegations of racial discrimination at the girl’s empowerment nonprofit.

Ermani Properties of Worcester purchased a 30-unit market-rate apartment complex at 31 Caroline St. in Worcester for $6.3 million.

While state spending has shifted recently with a renewed focus on making higher education more affordable, a new report found that enrollment at Massachusetts' public colleges and universities is down, which researchers partially blame on decades of disinvestment.

Physik Instrumente appeared before the Town of Shrewsbury Select Board on Wednesday, requesting a tax break to relocate its U.S. division headquarters from Auburn to Shrewsbury.