Framingham

In Framingham, the influx of Brazilians has been particularly crucial to the revival of a former mill town going through hard times.

When Central Massachusetts companies look to fill software, programming or research jobs, they’re increasingly looking to foreign labor under an immigrant work program called H-1B.

A Crossing Boulevard office building in Framingham has added four new tenants to bring it to 90% capacity.

More than two out of five home health agency executives plan to expand their service offerings in the next two years, according to a survey from Framingham industry analysis firm Definitive Healthcare.

MassHousing has provided grants totaling $622,095 to create or modernize 152 affordable sober housing apartments.

While Bay State home sales increased by less than 1% and median single-family sales price rose 3.5% in October, Worcester, Framingham, Leominster, and Marlborough bucked the trend.

RK Centers, a Needham owner of shopping centers, has bought from Target three retail spaces next to its Framingham location for $12.9 million.

When Spectrum Health Systems got its start half a century ago, the agency was located in Methuen, was named the Challenge House, and the addiction treatment industry thought little of the complex ways people could be helped.

State to hold public hearings, including one in Worcester, to install federally mandated mile-based exit signs on the commonwealth’s major and limited access highways.

TJX Cos., an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer, has invested $225 million for a non-controlling 25% ownership stake in Russian retailer Familia, the Framingham company reported Tuesday.