Greater Worcester

Neil Rogers, the executive chef of Niche Hospitality Group, has left to be the kitchen operations manager of the Worcester Regional Food Hub, a commercial kitchen facility for food startups.

A research team at WPI has grown heart tissue attached to spinach leaves, which researchers involved in the project said overcomes a key challenge in human tissue regeneration.

Worcester's Clark University is the 10th best college for adjunct faculty, based on a new report by the website Goodcall.com.

National Grid's Sustainability Hub unveiled a semi-transparent solar awning on Friday, which National Grid says is the first of its kind in Massachusetts.

Middlesex County added nearly 9,000 residents in a 12-month period ending last July, an average of 24 people a day, according to new U.S. Census data.

The owner of Worcester restaurants The Usual and The Blackstone Tap has been indicted on charges that he used more than $1 million in drug-sale money to buy and renovate nine properties.

Dr. James F.X. Kenealy, a Reliant Medical Group physician, has received the 2017 Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service from the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Worcester's College of the Holy Cross has elbowed out Harvard, Boston College and smaller picturesque campuses in the Berkshires to claim Travel + Leisure's "most beautiful" campus in the state.

An 8-acre site, a rare undeveloped property along Route 20 in south Worcester, has sold for $575,000.

Communities are urging lawmakers to let them restrict or prohibit commercial marijuana sales by a vote of the municipal legislative body, rather than a community-wide referendum.