Greater Worcester

Franklin Realty Advisors has been busy this month securing leases for Worcester's Mercantile Center, nabbing an extension, an expansion and a new tenant in the form of commercial real estate firm Kelleher and Sadowsky.

Five nursing home providers in Greater Worcester have received top ratings in U.S. News & World Report's 2016-2017 Best Nursing Homes report.

Primetals Technologies announced Tuesday that it will provide upgrades to a Vietnamese wire rod mill that will improve the factory's quality.

Worcester's Union Station is in need of over $6 million in repairs 16 years after it was brought back from the dead.

Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito is bouncing from town hall to town hall in central Massachusetts on Monday, meeting with officials from Boylston, West Boylston, Milford and Princeton, and signing Community Compacts with those towns.

Worcester State University has signed on as an anchor tenant for the new Worcester Sports Center under construction in the city's Canal District, the school announced.

A state commission says it is working to measure the impacts associated with Steward Health Care Network's proposed acquisition of a 200-physician independent practice association.

The value of the parent company for Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester and MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham dropped more than 25 percent in morning trading on Wednesday.

The Massachusetts Division of Insurance will kick off a series of information sessions next week in Worcester.

The board of directors at Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services (SYFS) has named two co-executive directors.