Greater Worcester

American Family Care, an urgent care and accessible primary care provider, opened its second Worcester location in August at 926 West Boylston St., a long-vacant retail location once home to a Blockbuster Video store.

The Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, in collaboration with nonprofit Venture Forum and incubator and coworking space WorcLab have named the twelve small businesses which will participate in its StartUp Worcester pre-accelerator program.

Researchers from UMass Chan Medical School, the NIH, and Emory University School of Medicine, have developed a database for information related to ALS.

Cornerstone Bank of Worcester plans to expand its footprint in the city with the $2.1-million purchase of a former Santander Bank branch in Worcester’s Tatnuck Square.

Some of the powerful players in Massachusetts' business community are getting impatient for long-promised, and long-delayed, tax relief as August stretches on without action.

Retail real estate giant Kimco Realty Corp. of Jericho, New York, which owns Waverly Plaza in Framingham and Mill Street Plaza in Worcester, plans to acquire Northborough Crossing owner RPT Realty of New York City.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection fined Boston Hides Limited Co. of Worcester $20,797 for illegally dumping wastewater and oil at its Worcester facility.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts announced Tuesday that it will cover the overdose reversal medication Narcan.

Farmington Manor Apartments in Marlborough was sold to a limited liability corporation registered to Bechara Fren.

After only months on the job, Transportation Secretary Gina Fiandaca plans to step down in two weeks and hand the role of the Healey administration's top transportation official to a deputy, Gov. Maura Healey's office announced Monday.