Greater Worcester

The long-time McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Auburn will be converted into professional offices.

Southbridge medical provider Harrington HealthCare System has officially cut the ribbon on its new 16-bed mental illness and substance abuse facility in Webster and expects to begin accepting patients by early January at the latest, according to a company announcement Friday.

A 13-unit apartment complex at 70-72 Russell St. in Worcester sold for $972,000, according to an announcement Thursday from Worcester real estate brokerage firm NAI Glickman Kovago & Jacobs.

Three incubators in MetroWest received a collective $105,375 in incubator grants from MassDevelopment as part of a funding round focused on community-based innovation and entrepreneurship from the financing agency.

The Worcester City Council has postponed a vote on the city's tax rate to Dec. 20.

A new analysis by WalletHub has ranked Worcester the 29th best college city out of 151 midsize cities in the United States.

In a continued land-grab by Worcester Railers Hockey Club owner Cliff Rucker, the Worcester office building of law firm Bowditch & Dewey sold Wednesday for $2.8 million.

Anna Maria College celebrated the holiday season by donating a collection of musical instruments to UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in Worcester.

Worcester City Manager Edward Augustus has requested the City Council sign off on $300,000 worth of eminent domain takings that will help protect the city's watershed.

Subsidiaries of Saint-Gobain Corp. have settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and will invest in environmental upgrades, the EPA announced Tuesday.