North County

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has set its own new record for number of patents in the past year, with 16 issued.

Slowey/McManus Communications, a strategic communications firm based in Boston, has opened a small Worcester office in an effort to branch out to clients in Central Massachusetts.

GateHouse Media, the New York-based owners of the Telegram & Gazette and a host of other daily and weekly newspapers in Massachusetts, spent $300,000 to purchase the Gardner News.

A historic hotel in Groton, once the site of the oldest hotel in the United States, has been rebuilt seven years after the historic structure was destroyed by a fire.

Massachusetts has chosen Worcester and Fitchburg among 10 cities to receive help in downtown redevelopment initiatives.

Daily newspapers in Fitchburg and Lowell and a related weekly publication earned a $5-million profit and a 26-percent profit margin in the last budget year.

Nurses who support mandatory staffing ratios are keeping their powder dry for a ballot fight they expect to wage this fall, a union chief told lawmakers on Monday.

Worcester could see millions of square feet of new development if it takes better advantage of Union Station's ties by commuter rail to Boston, according to a new report by think tank MassINC.

Atlantic Union College in Lancaster, which announced in February its plans to close after the spring semester, has submitted a closure plan to the state, according to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.

The former business manager at Clinton's Museum of Russian Icons has pleaded guilty to embezzling funds from her former employer and faces up to 20 years in prison.