Greater Worcester

Living in Freedom Together, a Worcester nonprofit organization aiming to end the sex trade, is no longer led by its founder, Nicole Bell.

Metro regions across Central Massachusetts experienced lower unemployment again in April after a drop in March.

Cannabis regulators voted Monday to overhaul their approach toward rolling out social consumption locations, sometimes referred to as marijuana cafes, that voters embraced in the 2016 ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana use.

State tax collections over the first half of May were up nearly 12 percent over the same period in May 2022.

Worcester-based packaging manufacturer Rand-Whitney Container opened its new 384,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Boylston on Thursday.

Worcester Affordable Housing LLC has proposed a renovation and addition to its former mill building at 70 Webster St. in Worcester, creating 33 apartments.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in April fell slightly for the second month in a row, according to the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Jean King, the dean of school of arts and sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been named to a top council at the National Institutes of Health.

Massachusetts squeaked out a smidgen of economic growth in the first quarter of 2023, slowing substantially from its late 2022 growth rate, and analysts are predicting GDP declines in the second and third quarters.

The Guild of St. Agnes, a nonprofit childcare profit childcare agency, opened a new child care and early education center in Worcester in collaboration with Worcester State University on Thursday.