Leominster

Local unemployment rates are up approximately half a percentage point across Central Massachusetts labor markets.

People are on the move at Saint Vincent Hospital, Rockland Trust, and ERA Key Realty Services.

Montachusett Regional Transit Authority, or MART, will receive a $685,746 grant from the Federal Transit Administration to develop a regional app to make travel for North County residents easier and less expensive.

Keystone Educational Collaborative has purchased Apple Hill Farm and Country Club in Leominster for a new educational facility.

As hospitals shutter services in the wake of staffing shortages, community members and health care workers will argue Thursday that the state should become responsible for hospitals that are "essential" but threatening to close.

Following a May announcement that UMass Memorial Health will shutter its maternity ward at the HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital, Leominster Campus, community advocates continue to push for services to remain in place.

Leominster-based public relations firm empHowered PR is opening its second location at the Worcester Idea Lab on Franklin Street, its first move beyond its North Central Massachusetts headquarters.

The first half of 2023 was a difficult one for home buyers and for real estate agents as single-family home sales cratered and home prices plateaued high above pre-COVID levels.

After the first half of 2023 rocked the banking world and as uncertainty clouds the economic future, Central Mass. bankers are staying the course.

Lawmakers appear increasingly likely to make hospital expansions and closures an area of scrutiny this session, fueled in part by the planned shutdown of a Leominster maternity ward that has drawn vociferous criticism.