Framingham

A pharmaceutical and biotech campus development firm is set to purchase the former MetroWest Daily News building in Framingham.

Bowditch & Dewey and Solect Energy were just a few Central Mass. companies announcing new hires in January.

A three-month WBJ investigation into 75 prominent Central Massachusetts business organizations found women comprise a disproportionately low percentage of senior executives and board seats.

Coca-Cola executive Alexander Douglas will replace Shira Goodman as CEO of Framingham office retailer Staples, who departed the company last month, less than a year after the company went private following its $7-billion acquisition by New York-based Sycamore Partners.

The highest-paying jobs among Central Massachusetts' most prominent organizations are overwhelming held by men, while the sectors with the greater gender mix are typically lower paying.

A new report from researchers at UMass Dartmouth paints a detailed picture of a MetroWest region richer and better educated than the state as a whole, and an area fast-growing and diversifying.

An Atlanta-based property investment firm has purchased several properties in downtown Framingham for more than $2.7 million as it prepares to begin construction on a five-story apartment building.

The former supervisory pharmacist of the New England Compounding Center connected with a 2012 meningitis outbreak killing 64 was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday.

An industrial building in Framingham has been sold to a real estate investment firm for nearly $4.9 million

Coca-Cola executive Alexander Douglas will replace Shira Goodman as CEO of Framingham office retailer Staples effective April 2.