Small Business

At the beginning of next year, Worcester will become the 110th municipality in Massachusetts to enact some type of flavored tobacco ban after the city Board of Health voted to adopt regulations prohibiting the sale of the products in convenience stores.

Banning a convenience store from selling flavored tobacco products to a 21-year-old adult while that same adult can purchase flavored alcohol at a liquor store would create a disparate retail environment, the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce said in a letter to the Board of Health.

Twenty unidentified registered marijuana dispensaries were approved Tuesday to have their applications to enter the recreational marijuana business reviewed an expedited basis.

For the third time in less than two months, opponents of state-level net neutrality legislation made their case at the State House, as one lawmaker said his questions had gone unanswered throughout the series of hearings.

An executive of the largest residential competitive electricity supplier in North America blasted Attorney General Maura Healey's call to end that industry.

For most of its nearly century of history, Worcester's Printers Building has been just as its name...

Worcester is indeed fortunate to have a smart and compassionate city manager who is doing his best to help solve the homeless situation here, but Francis Carroll believes the responsibility for solving this problem lies in the hands of the Worcester City Council.

The North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., has joined a national Small Business Administration lending program giving loans to businesses in underserved communities.

Funding for Biostage's bioengineered throat organ implants continues to pile up, as the Holliston company announced Thursday it has been awarded a grant worth up to $1.7 million.

Dr. Karen Munkacy writes about her battle with cancer and how it inspired her to make medical marijuana available to patients.