Greater Worcester

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.

Bay State Savings Bank has appointed Anthony Pasquale to chief commercial banking officer, a newly created position for the Worcester-based bank.

The Gov. Maura Healey Administration has 32 officials to a working group assembled to address the healthcare needs of a region now left without a hospital. 

Two future birth centers in Worcester and Boston have secured state funding to help cover the costs...

Hendler Family Brewing was already the largest brewer in Central Massachusetts.

Business confidence in Central Massachusetts rose in September following a historic low in August, yet remained in pessimistic territory.

The future site of a proposed condominium development in Shrewsbury has been sold for $5 million to the developer behind the plan. 

Preliminary construction has begun at a long-vacant lot at 5 Madison St. in Worcester, the future site of a six-story, 110-unit apartment building.