Greater Worcester

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.

Worcester's Allegro MicroSystems will be transfering 33 jobs from its Worcester and Manchester, N.H. facilities overseas.

Farmer brewers and farmer distillers would be permitted to sell their alcoholic beverage products at farmers' markets under legislation that cleared the Senate Thursday.

A new report detailing energy efficiency employment has found that the Worcester area has 10,666 employees in the industry.

The Worcester Art Museum has five new board of trustees members and a new president following the trustees' annual meeting Tuesday.

The American Cancer Society announced Thursday it will fund six grants totaling $1.6 million to researchers in Massachusetts.