North County

Nurses at HealthAlliance Hospital in Leominster on Wednesday voted “overwhelmingly” to authorize a one-day strike, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), the union representing the nurses.

Registered nurses at HealthAlliance Hospital have scheduled a one-day strike vote on Wednesday as contract negotiations with the UMass Memorial Health Care-owned hospital have exceeded the one-year mark.

Alternative medicine, such as yoga and acupuncture, is catching on, with many consumers using some form of those types of therapies with traditional treatments.

A Vermont-based manufacturer of yogurt is relocating to Leominster and plans to add about 12 jobs over the next two years, according to MassDevelopment, the state's finance and development agency.

Small businesses in the Fitchburg-Leominster area that need loans that banks won't give them will now be able to approach the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce.

Jabil Circuit Inc., the parent company of Clinton-based Nypro Inc., reported preliminary third-quarter net revenue of $4.4 billion on Wednesday. That is a 15 percent rise from the third quarter of fiscal 2014, when net revenue was $3.8 billion.

Hours before the Senate dismissed a proposal directing MassHealth to contract with provider groups, the lobby group that represents health insurers submitted alternative language to one of the major proponents of the idea.

OmniVision Technologies is partnering with optical instruments maker Precision Optics Corp. (POC) of Gardner and Tokyo-based Fujikura to develop a tiny camera module for medical applications.

More than 2,200 unionized nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester have voted to ratify one-year contracts after negotiations that the union called “relatively smooth.”

State transportation officials on Tuesday proposed roughly $3 billion in capital projects in fiscal 2016 for highways, smaller airports, the Registry of Motor Vehicles, freight tracks and the MBTA, including the governor's "winter resiliency" plan for the T.