Leominster

Worcester County was among the majority of areas in the state that saw their unemployment rate tick up slightly in May, rising to 7.5 percent, up 0.5 of a percentage point from April, according to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Patrick Muldoon, president and CEO of Leominster-based HealthAlliance Hospitals Inc., was named chairman of the Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) Board of Trustees at MHA's annual meeting June 13.

Perhaps feeling as if they had always been taking a back seat to the Boston area, officials...

After several years of uncertainty, The Mall at Whitney Field has a new owner and a new tenant, according to the buyer, Los Angeles-based Vintage Real Estate.

Statistically and anecdotally, all signs seem to point to a growing rental housing market both across the...

Leominster Credit Union has appointed a new president and CEO, promoting its senior vice president of lending, John J. O'Brien, following a somewhat unsettled turn of leadership for the credit union.

The state's Economic Assistance Coordinating Council this week approved $5.7 million in state investment tax credits for three Central Massachusetts companies.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has awarded a five-year contract worth approximately $12 million per year to UMass Medical School (UMMS), the school announced.

The owner of a Central Massachusetts limousine service has bought the Leitrim Pub on Park Avenue, according to a firm that helped broker the sale for owners Michael Coonan and Kevin Lenihan.

Private housing developers are stepping up to take on once- thriving, but now-abandoned industrial buildings that have created blight in the Central Massachusetts communities where they used to attract workers to a century ago.