Greater Worcester

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.

An Ohio-based manufacturer of fencing products has leased three acres of land in Worcester, indicating it plans to open its first New England location.

The largest regional transit authority in Massachusetts has purchased three 40-foot buses that produce no tailpipe emissions from the company that sold similar buses to Worcester in 2013.

The Worcester Redevelopment Authority voted Friday to approve up to $6.25 million for a full-scale repair of leaks in the Union Station roof.

UMass Medical School has been awarded $836,858 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support research on treatments and cures for heart and vascular diseases.