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MBTA extends Commuter Rail contract until 2027
April 26, 2024The MBTA Board voted unanimously Thursday to extend the agency's contract with Keolis Commuter Services, which operates the authority's commuter rail network, for one year to mid-2027.
April 26, 2024
Developer who purchased Becker College properties sells two in five-parcel $6M sale
April 25, 2024Five Elm Park neighborhood properties in Worcester, including two purchased as Becker College was heading toward closure in 2021, have switched hands from one property management company to another.
April 25, 2024
Mass. surpasses $6B in cannabis sales as unofficial 4/20 holiday breaks singe-day sale record
April 24, 2024While the Massachusetts cannabis industry continues to feel growing pains, consumers’ appetite for cannabis has shown no signs of slowing.
April 24, 2024
Healey dismisses transportation secretary's suggestion of NH border tolls
April 24, 2024"I am focused on affordability, I am focused on competitiveness. I'm not putting tolls at the border," Healey said. "I am focused on working with the T and the secretary on ensuring what we are doing so that we improve our transit system."
April 24, 2024
Central Mass. unemployment rates drop in March
April 24, 2024Central Massachusetts has experienced a decrease in unemployment rates from February to March as the four local metropolitan areas reported on by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development all saw drops.
April 24, 2024
Mass. unemployment rate in March remained below national rate
April 23, 2024The March unemployment rate remained unchanged from February’s revised estimate, according to a Friday press release from he Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, which sited U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
April 23, 2024
FDA issues most serious recall against Boston Scientific’s blood vessel blocking device
April 23, 2024The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall of Boston Scientific’s Obsidio conformable embolic medical device after an investigation found using the product for lower gastrointestinal bleeding embolization can result in a high risk of
April 23, 2024
Fitchburg’s 147-year-old building eyed for retro arcade bar, 8 apartments
April 23, 2024A Fitchburg property owner is involved in two separate proposals to see a Main Street property host a new retro arcade bar and eight residential units.
April 23, 2024
Worcester, Framingham projects benefit from $6.9M in state neighborhood stabilization funds
April 22, 2024Overall, this $6.9-million pool of funds will be used to redevelop or rehabilitate 37 homes across the state.
April 22, 2024
State tax collections up in first half of April, but Dept. of Revenue downplays significance
April 19, 2024Comparisons to April 2023 might not be helpful anyways. Last April, tax revenue came up $1.435 billion short of what was expected and turned what was shaping up as a surplus into a deficit.
April 19, 2024
Climbing prices, declining sales of Central Mass. homes largely continue in March
April 17, 2024Prospective home buyers in Central Massachusetts are still largely dealing with record high prices and limited inventory, as the average cost of a home purchase in Middlesex and Worcester counties is up around 10% in the last year.
April 17, 2024
WPI receives slice of $2.8M women’s health grants for bipolar treatment development
April 17, 2024Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes.
April 17, 2024
Preventing type 1 diabetes: UMass Chan researcher developing skin treatment, with potential broader applications to prevent diabetes
Updated: April 15, 2024Now professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UMass Chan, Harris has founded a vitiligo pharmaceutical company and is about to launch a 1,000-person vitiligo study.
Updated: April 15, 2024
Gov. Healey's proposed $1B life sciences reauthorization has Central Mass. leaders thinking big
Updated: April 15, 2024For the burgeoning life sciences hub that is Central Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey’s $3.5-billion Mass Leads Act economic development proposal looks to add fuel to fires.
Updated: April 15, 2024
HollyWoo production, halted: The industry built around Central Mass. moviemaking reached new heights in the early 2020s, before 2023 pressed pause
Updated: April 15, 2024Once a production desert, Central Massachusetts has seen a large increase in Hollywood-related activity in the past 15 years. Then, the strikes came.
Updated: April 15, 2024
Q&A: NORESCO is expanding its business of saving energy
Updated: April 15, 2024Since its founding in 1984, NORESCO has guaranteed more than $5 billion in energy cost savings at more than 10,000 facilities, spanning the globe from Massachusetts to Japan.
Updated: April 15, 2024
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