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Assigning fewer patients per nurse sounds good, but the reality is the provisions of this proposed mandate would have devastating unintended consequences.

A U.S. Post Service property in Harvard has been sold to a Cohasset man for just under $1.6 million.

Comprehensive Environmental Inc., a engineering and environmental services company, will move this winter from Marlborough to Bolton.

Labor-versus-management fights usually take place in a meeting room, or maybe on the picket lines. This one will take place at the polls.

Danish wind energy giant Orsted is growing larger with its acquisition of Deepwater Wind, one of its competitors in the United States.

Marijuana regulators have completed at least one final inspection of a retail marijuana shop and more are scheduled.

It appears that the Cannabis Control Commission's final go-ahead for a retail marijuana store to open will not come this week, pushing the opening of the first retail shop into at least October.

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.

City councilors on Wednesday approved the borrowing of nearly $101 million to pay for a ballpark in the Canal District and other ordinances for the project.

UMass Medical School had nearly 4,000 applications for 161 seats this fall, and its enrollment has spiked in the past decade.