Small Business

In the last decade, Central Massachusetts has become a hot spot for creative restaurateurs, brewers and distillers...

Balancing costs and payroll in the restaurant industry already with a low-profit margin is now going to be more difficult with wages for restaurant employees increasing over the next five years.

Marijuana regulators have completed at least one final inspection of a retail marijuana shop and more are scheduled.

Long before a startup gets its first customer, the founders are thinking about solving a problem and dominating their market by releasing their disruptive product into the world.

According to marijuana industry advocates and lawmakers, cities and towns ask for what they call exorbitant cash payments and services, which advocates say don't comply with the law.

An organization representing Massachusetts marijuana growers is considering a lawsuit to compel the Cannabis Control Commission to review the statutorily-required agreements between marijuana businesses and their host towns.

Five entities based in or connected to Central Massachusetts have received a share of nearly $2.9 million in state workforce training funds.

Mount Wachusett Community College is joining the likes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 12 other Massachusetts colleges in a new prison education consortium.

MassDevelopment has hired four development experts to help redevelopment initiatives in four cities, including Worcester and Fitchburg.

Worcester is working to determine which of the proposed 24 retail cannabis stores will land the city's 15 licenses.