Milford

Local hospitals are served by thousands of volunteers, who have a real impact on patients, and the bottom line.

New York City property manager RD Management is remaking the old Kmart as a Stop & Shop grocery store and has plans to expand a second building and add a third, creating a total of 15 retail spaces in what is now called Milford Crossing.

Starbucks is coming to Milford Crossing.

GateHouse Media, the parent company of several daily and weekly Massachusetts newspapers, is looking for a buyer for the current headquarters of the MetroWest Daily News.

Two former NECCO candy manufacturing buildings in Boston's Seaport District will be converted into a 21st century workspace and restaurant under a new agreement between Consigli Construction Co., Inc. and GE.

Both Worcester community health centers received just short of $50,000 each for capital improvement projects from MassDevelopment, the agency announced Thursday.

A former employee of the Framingham Housing Authority was sentenced to five months in prison after she pleaded guilty to embezzling money from her employer.

A construction worker in Sutton, a chef and caterer in Hudson, and a pizza delivery driver in Bellingham were among the 13 Central Massachusetts workers who died on the job last year, as workplace deaths hit a 10-year high statewide.

Seven of the 11 hospitals in Central Massachusetts had four-year readmissions rates lower than the state average, according to new data released Wednesday from the state Center for Health Information and Analysis.

MetroWest Medical Center matched the most recent state average for how often patients are readmitted, according to new data from the Center for Health Information and Analysis.