Greater Worcester

Lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance...

Following the opening of a new UniBank branch in Worcester’s Canal District, the Whitinsville-based bank is funding gasoline priced at 99 cents per gallon on Wednesday at a station in Kelley Square. 

Plans for the newly announced project call for the construction of a five-story building, featuring 46 studio apartments and about 1,500 square feet of commercial space.

Worcester Community Housing Resources, a not-for-profit aimed at preserving affordable housing in the city, has named Paul TonThat as the organization’s new executive director. 

Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital in Worcester has named its new chief nursing officer.

As the new year approaches, East Brookfield animal rescue nonprofit Second Chance Animal Services has said it has supported the health of 55,000 pets so far in 2024.  

Six years after purchasing more than 200 acres of property bisected by the municipal border of Grafton and Shrewsbury, a developer has won approvals to construct a 845,000-square-foot distribution center for delivery company UPS.

Five Worcester County universities have received a slice of $12.4 million in funding to financially support students entering the mental health or substance use disorders treatment fields.

The new apartment building, dubbed The Residences at Table Talk Square, will be constructed on Green Street at what was the planned site for the third phase of the Table Talk Pie redevelopment.

"I don't think anybody's as excited as I am about this, having a new ED," Chief People Officer Debra Hilton-Creek said the day the CCC chose David Lakeman for the job. Lakeman later turned down the job offer to stay in Illinois.