Leominster

Pier 1 Imports, the imported home furnishings retailer said up to 450 of its 942 stores are under consideration for closure, but it did not name specific locations. The Texas–based company operates Central Massachusetts stores in Bellingham, Framingham, Leominster, and Shrewsbury.

A new study says there's potential for more than 18,000 extra housing units along the three commuter rail lines serving Central Massachusetts, with most in MetroWest.

In Framingham, the influx of Brazilians has been particularly crucial to the revival of a former mill town going through hard times.

Nurses and supporters held a candlelight vigil at the Leominster campus of UMass Memorial HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital.

An effort by a Massachusetts coalition of nursing homes to secure funding for nursing home patients appears to be headed for the ballot.

While Bay State home sales increased by less than 1% and median single-family sales price rose 3.5% in October, Worcester, Framingham, Leominster, and Marlborough bucked the trend.

When Spectrum Health Systems got its start half a century ago, the agency was located in Methuen, was named the Challenge House, and the addiction treatment industry thought little of the complex ways people could be helped.

Substantial improvements are on the horizon for a 181-unit Leominster apartment complex after the state agency MassHousing announced $15 million in affordable housing financing for Whitney Carriage Park.

Process Cooling Systems held a ceremony Thursday marking the completion of the company’s new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Leominster.

The Auburn Mall Sears and The Mall at Whitney Field Sears in Leominster will be closed by February of next year as Sears, now owned by Illinois holding company Transformco, sheds over 40% of its Sears and Kmart locations around the country.