Greater Worcester

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.

New Jersey-based Goya Foods has opened a new 130,000-square-foot facility at its regional operations campus in Webster.

The City of Worcester launched two new affordable housing programs on Wednesday, to provide grants to landlords charging affordable rents and to give homebuyers money for down payments.

Housing Secretary Ed Augustus floated a few ideas before the Dignity Alliance Massachusetts during a "study session," where he hinted at some policies that may be included in a bond bill the administration plans to file to address the housing affordability and availability crisis in Massachusetts.

Health care spending in Massachusetts is "moving in the wrong direction" 11 years after enactment of a landmark cost-containment law, and regulators will make another pass at convincing lawmakers to support a new approach, a top state official said Wednesday.

Gov. Maura Healey will file her plan to close the books on fiscal year 2023 -- and address a tax revenue shortfall previously forecast to be tens of millions of dollars -- in the "next day or two," her budget chief said Tuesday.

The Worcester City Council voted unanimously to decertify the 15-year property tax break extended to the Unum Group due to its failure to maintain the required levels of employment related to the office tower at 1 Mercantile St. in Worcester.

The owners of Chuck’s Steak House, a Route 20 staple in Auburn since 1978, is looking to sell the restaurant property and relocate the business to a more modern and efficient space.