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Worcester healthcare insurance provider Fallon Health has hired a new vice president of financial planning and accounting operations.

After two years in which health care spending has grown more rapidly than the Massachusetts economy, state officials will now decide whether to keep or raise a lower growth target for next year.

The deadline is one week away for nominations for the Worcester Business Journal annual Business Leaders of the Year awards, which includes three new categories this year.

State tax revenues will grow by 3.9 percent next fiscal year, state budget managers predicted Thursday, giving Gov. Charlie Baker and the Legislature about $27 billion to help build the state's fiscal year 2018 budget.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.1 million to a Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor for a five-year study of bacteria in stressful conditions, the school announced Wednesday.

State transportation system overseers on Monday approved a plan that could reduce the agency's future liabilities by $35.6 million.

Heywood Medical Group in Gardner has promoted pediatrician Sari Miettinen to be its new medical director.

National grocery chain Whole Foods Market will relocate its North Atlantic regional headquarters to Marlborough this spring, according to the city's economic development corp.

The limited number of females in positions of healthcare administration leadership attests to the challenges that exist for women.

In December, after operating for 10 years, Rick Walton -- the man at the helm of the brewing company behind the Gardner Ale House -- starting distributing its Moon Hill beers at other bars, starting with the Columbia Tavern in Leominster.