Greater Worcester

The Telegram and Gazette, Worcester’s paper of record, will remain at 100 Front St. in a smaller office on the third floor in the high-rise building it has occupied since 2012. Its name, emblazoned atop the building, will be removed.

Children and parents swarmed around the Grand Staircase Thursday to rally for passage of an early education package they said would bolster affordability and access, address pay and benefits for early ed staff, and represent a "new, stable source of funding."

Technology's new frontiers present unique regulatory challenges for government systems that often lag behind the rates of change in fast-developing tech sectors.

The House came around on the idea of expanding a tax credit program designed to encourage much-needed housing production, just not in the legislative vehicle that Gov. Maura Healey and the Senate originally envisioned.

Three months into a year-long campaign to reassess eligibility for all 2.4 million MassHealth members, officials are still waiting for the ripples of disruption to turn into the waves they expected.

A weekly outdoor market will bring handmade and vintage goods, a farmers market, and entertainment to the courtyard at The Glass Tower in Downtown Worcester beginning on July 22.

The Retailers Association of Massachusetts is preparing for a majority of its members to either retire or sell their small businesses in the next decade, and the trade group's president said Wednesday that local franchise operations are going to be "key" to the future success of the small business sector.

House Democrats rolled out a major new spending initiative Wednesday, outlining a $693 million supplemental budget packed with funding for hospitals, collective bargaining agreements, special education and workers in the state's safety net system.

Eighteen Central Massachusetts nonprofits have been granted a combined $1.4 million from Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health in partnership with Shields Health in Quincy.

United Group of Companies, a national developer based in Troy, New York, purchased a development site at 757 Salisbury St. in Worcester for its 123-unit senior living project, The Arbella at Bramble Hill.