Greater Worcester

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.

Pioneer Valley farms that were flooded out during July will soon receive $10,000 checks from a fundraising campaign launched by the Healey administration and United Way of Central Massachusetts last month.

Gov. Maura Healey has tapped an administrator from UMass Lowell as her new commissioner of the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance.