Greater Worcester

Misinformation and fake news spread like wildfire on the internet, influencing public opinion and according to U.S. intelligence agencies, and the 2016 presidential elections.

A 65,000-square-foot shopping plaza at the former Worcester Regional Transit Authority site on Grove Street has been approved after the developer changed the design to better fit in the neighborhood.

The vacant and forclosed site of former Worcester manufacturer Creative Paper and Packaging will become a 90-unit apartment complex after.

The Longfellow Manor apartment complex in the Main South neighborhood of Worcester has sold for nearly $7 million.

General Electric's Healthcare Life Sciences operation in Marlborough and Westborough appear safe from the major cuts the Boston company announced this week.

Hanover officials announced at their annual meeting Tuesday night that Chris Rassias, a Worcester-raised restaurateur, will open a 1920s-themed restaurant at 551 Main St.

The MetroWest Daily News and other publications in a large, mostly unused 90,000-square-foot building in Framingham will relocate to an office on Speen Street in early December.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute chemistry professor has received a $1.7-million award from the National Institutes of Health to develop treatments for persistent cancers.

The Massachusetts Pirates, an arena football team, will start play next April at the DCU Center as the newest team in the fledgling National Arena League.

Worcester-based Fallon Health on Wednesday was among three Massachusetts health plans reporting net income and operating gains in the third quarter ending Sept. 30.