North County

Unemployment in the Worcester area fell by six tenths of one percent in February, with the addition of more than 2,000 jobs over the previous month, according to data released today by the Patrick administration.

A drop in inventory pushed down sales of single-family homes in Massachusetts last month, halting more than a year of monthly gains, according to two reports released today.

Reporting its second-quarter fiscal year 2013 financial results, Jabil Circuit Inc. said its acquisition of Clinton-based Nypro would likely take longer than originally expected.

Gardner-based Precision Optics Corp. has landed a $660,000 deal to make custom-designed endoscopes for one of its largest medical device customers, the company announced today.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons has awarded a five-year contract worth approximately $12 million per year to UMass Medical School (UMMS), the school announced.

TerraTherm Inc., a Gardner-based toxics remediation firm, has won a government contract to clean up an organic pollutant that has accumulated at a Vietnam airport, it announced.

Two weeks after it announced it had reached an agreement to be sold to a Florida firm, Nypro Inc. said it plans to add 100 employees at its home base in Clinton to meet growing demand for its health care products.

On a recent winter day, a construction crew was hard at work in Devens putting a roof atop concrete walls that will soon be four 18,000-square-foot sound stages.

You'd be hard pressed to hear a more reassuring message stemming from a corporate acquisition than the...

Gardner-based Precision Optics Corp. increased its sales in the second quarter by 1 percent, but its losses nearly doubled due to several settlements with investors, it reported this week.