Greater Worcester

After a 16-year tenure with Worcester-based Cornerstone Bank, Randal Webber has announced his plans to retire as president in early 2026.

MassLive had occupied 3,825 square feet of space at 10 Mechanic St., a building which also serves as the Central Massachusetts location for the state’s Office of the Attorney General.

An office park in Marlborough has been chosen as the future site of a state police crime lab, dealing a blow to Worcester’s attempt to find a use for parcels near the Polar Park baseball stadium.

The idea was part of the 2016 ballot law that legalized non-medical marijuana, and the CCC planned to include social consumption sites in its initial 2018 launch of the legal industry before it bowed to pressure from Beacon Hill to focus on the retail rollout first.

The trip comes as state energy policies shaped through a series of clean energy laws are suddenly at odds with the new direction of federal energy policy under President Donald Trump.

At least eight Worcester elected officials have shown support for undergraduate workers' efforts to have the university sign a neutrality card check agreement giving the workers the ability to form a union.

Deborah Packard, the long-time leader of Preservation Worcester, will retire from her role as executive director this summer.

The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has awarded $425,000 to two Central Massachusetts businesses.

Business groups are ramping up the pressure on Beacon Hill to use state dollars, not employer taxes, to repay the federal government for an unemployment insurance error committed by the Baker administration.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is implementing immediate and upcoming cuts to hiring, spending, and employment.