Greater Worcester

UMass Memorial Health’s first choice to open a standalone emergency room to partially replace the shuttered Nashoba Valley Medical Center was to purchase the closed facility.

Speaking at a WBJ event on Tuesday, Melnik said proposed cuts could have a significant negative impact on the state.

A Springfield-based developer is proposing an 11-story building for the site of a Downtown Worcester parking lot, featuring 139 residential units.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is sounding the alarms over plans by the Trump Administration to significantly cut the money spent on biomedical and public health research.

The Center for Women & Enterprise Central MA has laid off Director Racquel Knight.

An office building on Lake Avenue in Worcester has been sold to the owner of a mental health private practice for $925,000.

Auxilium, a new Worcester-based innovation studio and accelerator opened in January, is partnering with fellow startup center RIHub.

Former state Sen. Dean Tran was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in prison followed by two years of supervised release, having been convicted of 23 felony counts including COVID and tax fraud, federal prosecutors said.

Central Massachusetts began 2025 with a dip in business confidence, yet stayed in optimistic territory for January. 

The firm joined forces with NAI Global in 2015 and grew its international network. In January, NAI Glickman announced the promotion of Maria Adamo to chief marketing officer.