Greater Worcester

Home sales in Worcester County and throughout Massachusetts continue to be sharply down from 2022, while prices remain consistently higher, sharply so in the city of Worcester.

UMass Memorial Health has received $153,824 in a combined grant from The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, Reliant Foundation, and RIZE Massachusetts for an opioid-use disorder education program targeted at prescribers.

General contracting firm Fontaine Bros. broke ground on Sept. 8 on a $112-million addition and renovation to David Prouty High School in Spencer.

The City of Worcester opened its search for a chief equity officer on Friday, looking to fill a role vacant since spring 2022 and after a substantial restructuring.

Massachusetts had the seventh most clean energy jobs among states in 2022, according to a report released Thursday by a national business group.

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.