North County

United Solutions, a Leominster plastic manufacturer, announced on Tuesday it has extended its licensing agreement with Georgia manufacturer Rubbermaid Inc. for another seven years.

About a month after Lancaster recreation center Roll On America shut its doors — after over four decades in business — the property at 90 Duval Road was purchased for $2.5 million.

This five-month investigation by Worcester Business Journal and Worcester Regional Research Bureau dives into how racial discrimination in mortgage lending and home ownership creates neighborhoods of have's and have-not's in Greater Worcester, where educational and economic success is harder to achieve.

Over the next year and a half, Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building a $300-million, 47-acre headquarters in Devens, in its $1-billion, long-term effort to make fusion the default energy source on Earth

Central Massachusetts professionals are taking new jobs and getting promoted at companies like Estate Preservation Law Offices, Avidia Bank, AdCare Hospital and Banjo Health.

Downtown Fitchburg has struggled to attract new growth when so many people are following jobs to more prosperous areas or finding affordable areas elsewhere.

Students, faculty and staff wanting to participate in upcoming semesters must now be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at Worcester schools the College of the Holy Cross, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts ticked down 0.2 percentage points to 6.5% in April, continuing the steady decline from the high rates since the state of the coronavirus pandemic.

Fitchburg contract manufacturer Micron Solutions has sold its main manufacturing facility, with a leaseback, for $3.8 million amid a first quarter that saw increases in revenue and profits in comparison to the first quarter of 2020.

Gardner optical equipment manufacturer Precision Optics reported a profit for the third quarter as a result of forgiveness of its federal Paycheck Protection Program loan.