North County

Gardner's Moon Hill Brewing Co. and a Phillipston's Red Apple Farm are partnering to bring Worcester County a summerlong brew yard.

Shares of Ayer energy technology firm AMSC dropped by 18 percent early Thursday after the company reported a $32.8-million loss in fiscal 2017.

Framingham has joined a growing list of Central Massachusetts town to file lawsuits against pharmaceutical manufacturers for their role in the opioid crisis that has gripped the area for years.

A research group advocating against mandated nurse staffing ratios said hospital unit closures like the pediatric unit at UMass Memorial Health Alliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster will continue if a ballot question is passed.

Fifteen local artists hope to create the largest paper airplane ever assembled, taking ideas from some of Central Massachusetts' largest manufacturers and paper from historic paper-making businesses in the Fitchburg area.

An addiction recovery center in Westminster has expanded its number of beds to 64, including a 16-bed increase in its clinical support services beds and the hiring of 32 new employees.

The president of Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Boston has been named to lead UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester where he will begin duties on Sept. 1, UMass announced Thursday.

A Clinton real estate investment duo on Friday purchased three parcels on the Shrewsbury Street corridor in Worcester -- including the Eastern Boarder shop -- for $780,000.

Mount Wachusett Community College now offers one of the nine paramedic technology certificate programs in the state.

Worcester is looking to acquire more than 48 acres of land in Princeton for $180,000 to protect its water supply.