Greater Worcester

The U.S. News and World Report named 200 publicly-traded companies to its inaugural list of best companies to work for, and three Central Massachusetts companies made the list.

A suite of tax credits aimed at incentivizing new housing development will not be "the end of what the Senate will be doing on housing," Senate President Karen Spilka said Monday.

The Comfort Inn property at 426 Southbridge St. in Auburn was sold on Thursday for $7.6 million.

Boston development firm WinnCompanies has entered an agreement to purchase 390 Main St. in Worcester in order to create a mixed-use, mixed-income development.

Residents are in for a "very choppy summer" as the state's massive redetermination effort to gauge eligibility for 2.4 million MassHealth members unfolds, Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh said Thursday.

Shop owner Sheri Putnam, together with her husband Bob Putnam and Design Coordinator Susan Krysinski, maintain an ever-rotating stock of farmhouse-styled merchandise that all but bursts off the shelves.

People are on the move at UMass Memorial Medical Group, Fidelity Bank, and Clark University.

When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has become an unremarkable part of the state economy.

Smaller cannabis companies are white labeling and collaborating as they try to survive a fierce pricing competition against large corporations in an increasingly saturated market.

Artificial intelligence offers ways to improve the burdensome electronic health records process, but a leading Westborough company urges caution amid innovation.