North County

The Worcester Metropolitan Statistical Area seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate climbed to 3.8% in August, from 3.7% in July.

A 458,681-square-foot warehouse building at 111 Adams St. in Clinton sold for $49.3 million on Friday, as part of a larger deal to Florida real estate investment firm Westbrook Partners.

Tom Skwierawski, the City of Fitchburg’s executive director of community development and planning, is moving on to a new job in Revere.

JENNIFER DiFRANCO has been named director of development at Worcester Academy, effective Aug. 1. DiFranco, a current...

Four entities connected with Brady Sullivan Properties, a property manager and developer in Manchester, New Hampshire, have purchased two lots, including a shopping center on the Fitchburg, Lunenburg border, for a total of $7 million.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $1.6 million over five years to Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner to prepare high school students for postsecondary education that leads to careers in the fields of math and science.

U.S. News & World Report on Monday released its annual ranking, and several Central Massachusetts colleges and universities placed on both the main lists and its various sublists.

The president of the restaurant group behind The Fix Burger Bar has purchased the location next to its Bocado Tapas Wine Bar in Worcester.

Jessica Strunkin, executive vice president at MassDevelopment and the leader of its Devens mixed-use community, has left her position, leaving the state agency to find a new de facto town manager.

An historic Worcester Lunch Car Co. diner was sold on Thursday to new owner-operators.