Hopkinton

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, a nonprofit formed three decades ago to support the state's life sciences industry, is aiming to make it easier for communities to make themselves ready through the right zoning and permitting programs.

An executive from one of the area's largest technology companies will join Worcester medical device manufacturer Cogmedix.

Another powerful nor'easter, this one on the heels of a storm that battered the East Coast last week, has caused power outages to more than 368,000 Massachusetts homes and businesses on Thursday.

The California bioscience company once considered to be the anchor of a Worcester biomanufacturing campus is planning to open a new facility in a 69,000-square-foot Hopkinton building.

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.

Hopkinton solar company Solect Energy is expecting a sudden stop in growth — or even a drop — after a new tariff on solar-panel imports was announced this week.

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

A 21,000-square-foot office building on South Street in Hopkinton near Dell EMC has sold for $2.2 million.

A vacant lot on Hopkinton's West Main Street is now being prepared for a Dunkin Donuts following years of appeals after the project was approved by town officials.