Greater Worcester

Banking and finance leaders at Central Massachusetts institutions see education as a key way to help combat financial illiteracy.

The most straightforward analysis of the rate reduction is it’s good news for people and businesses who are either looking to borrow or who are already paying down debt.

Shah plans on leveraging his experience in public education and nonprofit work to promote education among business owners.

Worcester’s NAACP Unit has expressed its support of the City’s decision to hire Kevin Lovaincy.

The U.S. economy is in a good place overall, Susan Collins, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said at the Worcester Regional Research Bureau’s annual meeting on Wednesday. 

The Cannabis Control Commission expects to wrap up its search for a new executive director.

Health care spending in Massachusetts continued to grow faster than household incomes, according to new research, fueling concerns about access to care even before accounting for more recent upheaval inflicted by Steward Health Care's bankruptcy.

Attending college has become more accessible for students of the College of the Holy Cross as the Worcester institution has announced those whose families earn $100,000 a year or fewer with reasonable assets will receive full-tuition grants. 

Worcester science and nature nonprofit museum EcoTarium will break ground on its first expansion project since 2000, as the museum plans to construct a 8,300-square-foot traveling exhibit gallery. 

The City of Worcester announced its search for a new chief equity officer, Kevin Lovaincy from Quinsigamond Community College has been named to the position.