Transportation

With a $350,000 federal grant, Mount Wachusett Community College plans to launch a study abroad program.

Harr Motor Group in Worcester has officially been sold to company President Michael Gross from longtime owner Charles Ribakoff.

City Manager Edward Augustus will ask the Worcester City Council on Tuesday for authorization to spend $32.5 million to build a new Canal District parking garage.

Union Station is in a transitional period as it works to lure new state offices and works through a turnover in retail tenants, the chairman of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority said Friday.

Economists have long argued that a labor crunch in Massachusetts, punctuated by an aging workforce and slow natural growth in the labor force and population, is serving as a brake on economic growth. They're changing their tune now.

Thirteen professionals were on the move recently in Central Massachusetts.

Engineers are starting to plan what could be a drastic overhaul of Kelley Square in order to make way for baseball fans and other visitors for a proposed ballpark in the Canal District.

Four entities - largely food and beverage-based establishments - are expressing interest in Worcester's Union Station.

The former Deluxe Depot Diner at the Framingham MBTA station is now available for lease.

Some commuter rail trains on the Fitchburg line will stop at the Littleton/495 station starting Oct. 15 to allow crews to replace 30,000 railroad ties along the track.