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Certain craft brewers would have new freedom to change how their suds are sold under a bill that moved out of a powerful House committee on the last day of formal sessions.

The Senate's chairman of the Economic Development Committee said a $600 million economic development bill's investments and policy sections are "really going to get at the heart of the imbalance we all feel in our economy right now."

A plan to renovate a former Fitchburg school into affordable housing has taken a step forward.

Movers and shakers in Central Massachusetts from July 9 to July 23.

Becker College has created its fifth school, the School of Graduate and Professional Studies, to centralize the Worcester college's graduate programs.

What started as a late-night college dorm room conversation nine years ago at Babson has blossomed into one of the industry giants in efficient-lighting technology.

Dundas is quickly becoming the face and the brain behind Massachusetts recreational marijuana.

The Gov. Charlie Baker Administration will provide more than $2.15 million in funding for its MassDevelopment Collaborative Workspace Program grants to help spur job creation and business formation.

Milford marijuana cultivator Sira Naturals is launching the Sira Accelerator, a program aimed at breaking down those financial and time barriers to entering the legal marijuana market.

At a time when colleges are battling high costs and a shrinking pool of high school graduates, they are increasingly turning for growth to an area where they don't need to recruit students, house them in dorms or feed them in dining halls.