North County

Advocates working to prevent UMass Memorial Health from closing its birthing unit at HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster are doubling down their efforts in the last days before the planned closure, attempting to persuade Gov. Maura Healey to issue a stay to keep it open.

Ascend Elements is planning to move its headquarters and research-and-development facility from Westborough to Devens in September 2024.

Unemployment rates across Central Massachusetts remained virtually unchanged from July to August, continuing the summer’s trend of low unemployment across the region, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Tuesday by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

The College of the Holy Cross and all three of the Central Massachusetts state universities gained in the U.S. News and World Report rankings released Monday, while Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University fell.

Home sales in Worcester County and throughout Massachusetts continue to be sharply down from 2022, while prices remain consistently higher, sharply so in the city of Worcester.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., an affiliate of the Fitchburg-based North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce is offering loans of up to $10,000 at 1% interest to businesses affected by the devastating flooding in Northern Worcester County on Sept. 11.

Since joining Harvard-based Maugel DeStefano Architects eight years ago, Pelletier advanced to the top, first being tapped as a principal by founder Brent Maugel in a 2018 merger that created Maugel DeStefano Architects.

People are on the move at Fallon Health, Nichols College, and Cornerstone Bank.

A trio of community-minded tech workers are connecting Downtown Fitchburg to a new internet service and looking beyond.

Massachusetts snagged an additional $80 million in Federal Highway Administration money, the Healey administration announced, as part of a redistribution of funds that occurs annually.