North County

Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday detailed an agreement reached with the deans of the state's three dental medicine schools to introduce training for opioid abuse prevention and management into their core curriculums.

The troubling worldwide signals of a potential recession are more smoke than fire and are unlikely to lead to a U.S. recession in 2016, according to an economist speaking Thursday in Worcester.

Mount Wachusett Community College President Daniel Asquino announced that he will step down from his position in 2017.

Fitchburg's Arrhythmia Research Technology has appointed an independent director at the urging of an activist investor who holds 11 percent of the company's stock.

The city of Leominster will hold a public hearing to discuss a proposal to establish a medical marijuana dispensary at 57 Nashua St.

A clean energy purchasing program launched by the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island has received numerous Central Massachusetts bids to deliver clean energy.

GARETH CHARTER is now director of sales for the Worcester region at MassLive, a news service. He...

Gov. Charlie Baker has held the fiscal line for Massachusetts taxpayers and those subject to myriad governmental fees, promising no hikes in the fiscal 2017 budget.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corporation (NCMDC) has recently granted three small business loans totaling $194,000 to help selected businesses expand while retaining 60 jobs in the region, the organization announced Thursday.

Laura Silver Traiger, a lawyer with Starr Vander Linden LLP of Worcester, was awarded a Deborah H....