North County

Gardner-based manufacturer of plastics for medical use Biomedical Polymers is opening a 79,000-square-foot facility in Sterling after purchasing the building for $5.1 million.

Wachusett Brewing Co. will bring its signature airbus to Railers Tavern this summer.

Craft beer is still booming, but breweries are scaling back their plans as dozens of new brewers come on line each year.

Twenty-one Central Mass. workers and their organizations reported to the WBJ that they have landed new jobs this month.

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.