Natick

Eastern Insurance Group in Natick announced Wednesday it has acquired the assets of the Chase and Lunt Insurance Agency in Newburyport for an undisclosed sum.

As a further sign in the growing demand for Central Mass. real estate, more MetroWest and Boston companies are reaching out to local cultural institutions to provide employees with area benefits.

Seven Central Massachusetts physician practices have been named to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's annual Physician Group Honor Roll.

Machine vision technology developer Cognex Corp. announced two technology acquisitions over the last two months in the areas of 3D vision and industrial ID.

The MetroWest region saw overall year-over-year increases in sales of both single family homes and condominiums in November.

Nasuni, a Natick file-storage-and-protection company serving enterprise customers, has raised $17.5 million in a round of financing that pushed the organization to over $80 million in overall funding.

Armed with $1.25 billion and plans to acquire hospitals, Steward Health Care of Boston is making inroads into Central Massachusetts.

Home sales throughout MetroWest slipped in October, following a statewide trend that marked only the second time this year that sales did not grow over the previous year's numbers, according to The Warren Group.

Cognex Corporation, a designer, developer and manufacturer of products incorporating machine vision technology, had its best quarter in the company's 35-year history in terms of net income and earnings per share from continuing operations.

A difficult week in Massachusetts transportation, marked by a chaotic evacuation of a smoke-filled Orange Line train, is ending with a burst of concern over the state's long-planned conversion to an all electronic tolling system.