Framingham

Whole Foods will open its Shrewsbury location on Jan. 30, which will mark the natural and organic foods retailer's first Worcester-area location.

There are more local options for women when it comes to issues of timing, such as the retrieval, freezing and preservation of ovarian eggs for later fertilization.

Retailer TJX is recommending that its shareholders reject an unsolicited offer below market price.

Single-family home prices rose in November, most drastically in Westborough, Natick and Southborough, which all surpassed $600,000 in median home price.

Framingham State University President Javier Cevallos has joined a nationwide alliance of college presidents calling on Congress to pass legislation protecting students who are so-called Dreamers.

The rail line's 30-day average as of Wednesday was 94 percent, finally catching up to the MBTA system average after a less-than-stellar year.

Framingham State University will start a new master in business administration degree program next fall, including a concentration on biotechnology.

Smaller campuses may struggle with declining interest from international students, and colleges will have to work to find the right balance between speech rights and harmful actions.

Although biomanufacturing has been a bit slow to take hold in the region, there's only optimism for the budding industry.

Framingham and Boston-based utility company Eversource have agreed to a $500,000 settlement after the town claimed the company failed to cleanup a contaminated site it acquired nearly a decade ago.