Milford

According to marijuana industry advocates and lawmakers, cities and towns ask for what they call exorbitant cash payments and services, which advocates say don't comply with the law.

Reliant Medical Group has been re-arranging its offices in and around Worcester, with no space as large as the 120,000-square-foot office that Reliant will open to patients Monday.

A nurse working at a Milford nursing home will serve four years of probation and six months of home confinement for stealing prescription painkillers.

A California provider of packaging, supplies, vaporizers and other products for the regulated marijuana industry has opened a new warehouse in Worcester.

As it works to get the non-medical marijuana market up and running, the Cannabis Control Commission is planning to work up regulations this fall to assume control and oversight of the state's medical marijuana program in December.

Worcester County has been the most active Massachusetts county for the recreational marijuana industry with 34 total applications submitted to the state Cannabis Control Commission.

One of the largest roadblocks to launching the retail market for legal marijuana in Massachusetts was eliminated Thursday as the Cannabis Control Commission approved provisional licenses for two testing laboratories.

The president of Nashoba Valley Medical Center, Sal Perla, has resigned, the Ayer hospital announced Tuesday.

The fight for entertainment dollars is not getting easier for Central Massachusetts venues and attractions, even if leaders aren't sure how casino competition will play out.

Milford Crossing has signed leases with two new tenants, bringing the shopping plaza to 92-percent occupied less than a year after it opened.