Greater Worcester

The National Science Foundation awarded Worcester Polytechnic Institute Professor Loris Fichera $599,663 to develop robots to treat disease without touching human tissue.

The Cove, a seven-story development abutting Polar Park in Worcester, has awarded 18% of its contracts so far going to subcontractors run by women or people of color.

Federal transportation officials dealt a major blow to a voter-approved Massachusetts law boosting access to motor vehicle telematic data, warning that the measure on the state's books "poses significant safety concerns."

Cities and towns will likely need to wait weeks longer to find out how much state aid they'll receive in the next year, and the answers they get will have spillover effects on municipal budgets and possibly even local property taxes.

Health inequities experienced by communities of color have an economic burden of $5.9 billion annually, according to a newly released study from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.

The City of Worcester is set to allocate $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to the United Way of Central Massachusetts, which the nonprofit will use to support its food insecurity programs.

Across the street from its first near-complete apartment building, Boston developer Madison Properties has begun a lease on the Polar Park parking garage that will pay the City of Worcester $4.3 million in base rent over the next 20 years.

Gov. Maura Healey announced Tuesday the launch of a "green bank" that she hopes will attract private investment and federal money to pay for building retrofits and new construction of decarbonized buildings in Massachusetts.

A leadership transition is underway at Associated Industries of Massachusetts, one that will see president and CEO John Regan hand the reins of one of the state's leading business groups to Executive Vice President for Government Affairs Brooke Thomson at the end of this year.

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection assessed a penalty of $114,969 against a Worcester contractor for violations of asbestos regulations that occurred during work on a Worcester residential property in fall 2021.