North County

After four months of sales, the makers of Nauti Seltzer are expanding the drink's distribution area west and south on the back of strong demand throughout the Northeast.

A Lunenburg construction company and a Framingham company have been ordered to pay $2,359,685 in back wages and damages to 478 employees for misclassifying the bulk of their employees as independent contractors to avoid paying them overtime wages and other benefits, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

Last week, Nashoba Valley Medical Center completed an expansion of its inpatient psychiatry unit for senior citizens.

Sterling Manufacturing is a vertically integrated, injection molding solutions maker serving the healthcare, aviation, defense and commercial industries.

Telemedicine is opening doors to treating patients throughout Massachusetts.

Central Massachusetts appears poised to benefit again from a growing and efficient initiative to make the region more attractive to businesses – the MassWorks Infrastructure Program.

Laurie Benson has been hired to lead Fidelity Bank's consumer banking as senior vice president and head of retail banking.

The license of Gardner-area doctor Robert B Shepherd, D.O. was suspended by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine in an emergency meeting.

Harvard Biosceince has so far put $1.66 million into a forensic investigation, according to the company's financial report in which a loss of $700,000 was reported for the first two quarters of the year.

Leominster certified public accounting firm Robert C. Alario, CPA, P.C.has expanded its presence into Harvard through a merger with accounting firm, Nancy F. Washington, P.C. Certified Public Accountants.