Worcester

Employees at Vision Advertising, Thrive Support & Advocacy, and Main Street Bank are advancing in their careers.

It was once common business wisdom that you had to be in a major U.S. city to successfully attract venture capital for a startup. Not anymore, according to key figures in Worcester's entrepreneurial scene.

In Central Massachusetts, the confidence banking executives have in the brick-and-mortar model is unwavering.

These private donations may soon become significantly more important as the federal government is weighing funding cuts to health research.

In response to the President Donald Trump Administration’s threat to potentially cut off federal funding, UMass Chan Medical School is assembling a committee to navigate the rapidly changing and uncertain DEI landscape of higher education.

StartUp Week Worcester will kick off on April 8.

WuXi has disputed an early WBJ report saying construction at the Worcester site has stopped, although the company declined to provide specifics or give an updated timeline.

Property owners impacted by the federal government’s sudden termination of seven Central Massachusetts leases for facilities used by federal agencies likely have few options for recourse, according to a local real estate attorney.

“We’ve been DOGE-ed,” said Christopher Egan, president of Carruth Capital in Westborough, which owns one of the impacted properties.

A Worcester property, the site of a proposed daycare center and office space, has been sold for $1.4 million.