Greater Worcester

The chief financial officer of Worcester fluid conveyance provider Omni Services was elected to an executive position of the national trade group Association for Hose & Accessories Distribution.

Craig Bovaird, owner of Built-Rite, spoke with the Worcester Business Journal about building a strong reputation, maintaining quality, recruiting for new positions and the senior management team and ownership coming up with a transition plan for the next decade.

Water restrictions are going into place in Worcester and other parts of the state as the state enters its fourth week of drought conditions.

The city of Worcester has been highlighted as one of the state's renewable energy leaders in a new report from the nonprofit Environment Massachusetts.

The city of Worcester has cleared the way for final two medical marijuana dispensaries to come into the city after City Manager Edward Augustus issued letters of non-opposition to Mission Massachusetts, Inc. and Medicinal Alternatives, Inc.

A proposed rail program that would add two new routes connecting Boston to both New Haven and Montreal through Worcester could bring more than $1.2 billion in infrastructure improvements to the Northeast.

A section of Worcester's Main Street in front of Clark University is set for $2.3 million worth of state-funded improvements.

As Uber continues its Central Massachusetts expansion, it has released the most requested locations in Worcester, with the city's colleges and bars rounding out the list.

A team of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and UMass Dartmouth researchers characterized how some cranberry juice compounds can be effective in blocking the first step of bacterial infections.

A study coauthored by a UMass Medical School researcher found that single, young, low-income males in Massachusetts are more likely to go without health insurance for two consecutive years.