Small Business

Officials are eying the e-cigarette threat as youth smoking fades and the smoking age rises.

Worcester Business Journal was honored as the second best small business-to-business publication in the country on Saturday at the annual conference of the Alliance of Area Business Publications, while a WBJ editorial was named the best of the year at the same ceremony.

A new company has been launched in Marlborough with the goal of allowing homeowners and small businesses to manage their space wirelessly.

The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday approved a sweeping zoning reform bill that supporters said will spur the development of affordable housing and encourage sustainable growth, but even those supporters admitted the chances of the bill becoming law this session are slim.

As credit unions' market share expands in Massachusetts, the state bankers association says that growth is unfair to banks and against the public interest.

Fears among Massachusetts retailers about the impact of legalized marijuana on their workers are "baseless," according to the campaign pushing a November legalization ballot question.

The Senate on Thursday approved of an amendment that would create a special commission to study the regulation of daily fantasy sports and online gaming in Massachusetts.

The winners of the 2016 WBJ Family Business awards were announced at the annual event Wednesday night.

Many of the top 100 employers in Central Massachusetts are from the state's biotech industry.

A unanimous Supreme Judicial Court ruling handed down on Tuesday affirms the state's obligations under a 2008 global warming law and orders state government to create and implement regulations that apply to multiple carbon sources to meet its emission reduction mandates.