North County

Fitchburg has four cannabis operations up and running today, but far more are on the way, making the North Central Massachusetts city into something of a hub for the still-developing industry.

A sprawling industrial site on Brook Street in Clinton proposed as a cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility has sold for $10 million.

Worcester and Gardner are sharing in $3.6 million in MassDevelopment state funding aimed at helping communities develop challenging locations, including money benefiting a new Table Talk Pies facility in Worcester.

The coronavirus pandemic hasn't stopped a collaboration between Fitchburg State University and Rhine-Waal University in Germany. Throughout the years, delegations of the two colleges have sent representatives to discuss the transatlantic relationship between the U.S and Germany.

In Massachusetts, it's all but impossible to top any hospital ranking if you're not Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Children's Hospital.

A Rite Aid store in Clinton is one of three such locations in Massachusetts and 258 sites in 15 states nationwide where the public can stop by for coronavirus screening and testing.

AIS, a Leominster furniture maker, has joined the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council’s Edge program as a preferred partner, the council announced on Friday.

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission agreed to levy $800,000 in fines against three cannabis companies at their regular meeting on Thursday.

Rollstone Bank & Trust, headquartered in Fitchburg, will reopen its branch lobbies to customers beginning Monday, the bank announced on Wednesday.

Hospitals across Massachusetts showed significant financial losses in the first quarter of the year, capturing a time mostly before the coronavirus pandemic hit in full force, according to new state data released Thursday.