Retail

Retail giant Kohl's has appointed a Worcester Polytechnic Institute alumnus as its new CEO, the company announced this week.

The Hopkinton Technology Park on South Street is now home to five new companies after a spree of leasing activity over the summer.

Worcester is punching its own lottery ticket in hopes the city can land online retail giant Amazon.

Table Talk Pies, a nearly century-old company located on Washington Street, is opening a third location on Southgate Street in the South Worcester Industrial Park later this month.

Milford banned recreational marijuana shops on Tuesday, with 56.3 percent of town voters opting for a complete ban of any recreational marijuana establishments.

As activists ramp up their push to raise the minimum wage again, economists from many of the state's public and private universities are rallying to the cause.

A nearly century-old Worcester company is expanding with the opening of a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in the South Worcester Industrial Park.

The results of a one-year study addressing marijuana use, related risk behaviors, and science capable of measuring marijuana impairment are set to be released in July 2018.

Last summer, Instagram introduced Instagram Stories, a very Snapchat-like feature allowing brands and people to share personal, temporary, moments outside of those carefully curated images we all post in our feeds.

Following a dreadful 2016, local farms hope a better a better apple crop leads to increased business.