Transportation

Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday her administration will continue to withhold state funding from cities and towns that fail to comply with a controversial -- but constitutional -- zoning reform law, describing the latest challenges to the measure as "without legal merit."

In separate publications, Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro and Auditor Diana DiZoglio each detailed overlapping concerns with the relationship between the T and Keolis, which for more than a decade has been under contract to run the commuter rail network.

Worcester County gas prices have hit a steady stride in 2025, with regular gas prices remaining virtually unchanged for the past month.

Speaking at a WBJ event on Tuesday, Melnik said proposed cuts could have a significant negative impact on the state.

A logistics center in Uxbridge has sold for $120 million to Boston private equity real estate firm Rockpoint, making it the largest property transaction in the past five years in Central Massachusetts.

BJ’s Wholesale will open its 250th club when a new location opens in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday.

This past fiscal year, Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner quietly achieved a milestone.

The tourist center on Dec. 2 had a changing of the guard when Diane Burnette retired after nearly 30 years with the center, which is a division of Fitchburg-based North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce. Sabbra Reyes was promoted as the new manager after being employed at the center for 15 years.

Every year starting in October, WBJ asks its readers to vote on the best companies in Central Massachusetts in a variety of categories, ranging from law firms and incubators to golf courses and restaurants.

In a decision with massive implications for the state's effort to build more housing, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the zoning reform law does not run afoul of the state Constitution.