Transportation

As the Nashoba Valley continues to reel from the 2024 closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer, the Gov. Maura Healey Administration is dedicating $5 million to reimburse the region’s overburdened emergency medical services.

Not only are these diverse populations moving away from their old residences, they’re moving away from their healthcare providers.

In an effort to attract more airlines to serve local travelers, Worcester Regional Airport will now offer expanded incentives and benefits to carriers through its revamped air service incentives program.

Hayden Wood Insurance Agency in Southborough, a firm with a specialty in insuring collector cars and motorsport vehicles, has been acquired by New York-based financial firm.

The volume in Central Massachusetts ERs is still expected to grow, exacerbated by a primary care shortage and incoming $1 trillion in cuts nationally to Medicaid.

A new proposal on Beacon Hill would fund extended commuter rail services along the Route 2 corridor into north central Massachusetts with revenue from a hypothetical casino.

The lawmakers raised concerns to Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro over the "integrity and transparency" of the process after the winning bidder, Applegreen, abruptly pulled out of negotiations with the state.

North Central Massachusetts is tackling a problem familiar to suburban and rural communities: Getting workers from transit stops to their jobs.

Legacy Transport delivers more than 1.8 million pounds of food each year to more than 7,000 monthly households.

Microtransit services operate in parts of the state — sometimes through Regional Transit Authorities, other times independently — but advocates say they are underfunded and overstretched.