Devens

These properties – which could host retail, housing, industrial or office complexes, or some mix – are practically hiding in plain sight, simply waiting for the right buyer or builder.

Homes are being sold in Massachusetts again after months of slow sales, including in Worcester County, where 762 single-family homes were sold in November.

The trends are going in the right direction for homeowners: an increase in prices and a sharp drop this year in foreclosures, both in Central Massachusetts and across the state. A tight supply market means finding a home is more difficult.

Although biomanufacturing has been a bit slow to take hold in the region, there's only optimism for the budding industry.

Six inmates at the West Boylston House of Corrections graduated last week from a plastics manufacturing class run by Mount Wachusett Community College.

A century after it opened as a military base, Devens has become a center of innovation and technology.

Can Devens fulfill its promise as a place where Boston and Cambridge technological firms want to expand their manufacturing capabilities in a less costly, but still easily accessible location?

The farm of the future is in a nondescript greenhouse down a wooded residential road next to a site where the military once trained for the Vietnam War.

As cyber threats rise, the supply of highly skilled cybersecurity workers is not meeting demand.

At first, it looks to be an imagination at work, or maybe the doings of ghosts: groups of tall shelves stacked with packages of clothing and moving entirely on their own.