Greater Worcester

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has closed its investigations into Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick and Framingham Union Hospital, probing sparked by undisclosed hospital-related incidents and complaints filed by the Massachusetts Nurses Association labor union.

Heads or tails? The Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday voted 3-2 to allow sports betting companies to offer wagers on one of the very first actions to take place at this Sunday's Super Bowl, the opening coin toss.

Kathleen Gagne, executive director of Mechanics Hall in Worcester, will be packing up her desk come June as the event hall’s leader has plans to retire.

Eight parcels once comprising the Sunnyside Ford dealership in Holden are up for sale.

The administration has long pointed to a goal of increasing the statewide supply of year-round housing by 222,000 units over the next decade.

IMA celebrated its 100th year of operation last year, having been founded by Harold Fielding in Worcester in 1924. The firm has 45 employees.

Worcester science museum EcoTarium has enhanced its collection of mammal artifacts and sculptures, along with an unspecified monetary donation, from benefactors Peter and Joan Dirlam of Southbridge.

Worcester Community Action Council has named Ruth Pellegrino as the social services nonprofit’s new chief financial officer.

Massachusetts cannabis regulators have sounded the alarm over potentially harmful products sold by two marijuana companies, who are both pushing back against the need for the notice and the state’s haphazard testing system.

Hometown Financial Group, the Easthampton-based mutual multibank holding company of bankHometown in Oxford, has hired Reed Whitman as its new executive vice president, chief financial officer.