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Ayer-based Optometrics Corp. has received a $300,000 equipment loan from MassDevelopment, the state's finance and development agency.

The Patrick administration is awarding nearly $14 million in grants to support new building projects for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, schools, and communities across the state, including 21 in Central Massachusetts.

The minimum wage in Massachusetts would increase from $8 an hour to $11 an hour by 2017 under a deal announced Wednesday night by top House and Senate Democrats.

Family relationships can be complicated. But in some cases, those blood relationships can be tested and even strained when there's a family business involved that needs caring and nurturing.

This year the Worcester Business Journal marks its 25th anniversary with a look back at major events over that time, this issue we look at Nypro's Russian joint venture in 1990.

True North Holistic Center and Retreat House in Hubbardston will open The Evoking Alchemy Center —a refurbished...

Gateway Cities, such as Fitchburg and Worcester, are in a unique position of combating the perceptions that come with older industrial centers while building upon the remnants of that industrial heritage to foster the industries of tomorrow.

When Jennifer Wood's three-year old son started preschool recently, he had an unusual request. For show and...

Devens-based AMSC said today that it has received a $40 million order for wind turbine electrical control systems (ECS).

Electric ratepayers in Unitil's service area in North Central Massachusetts will see a smaller rate increase after the Patrick administration cut the utility's request for a larger jump in its distribution rate.