Transportation

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.

Gas in Worcester County has risen 5 cents from last week’s price of $3.06.

Massachusetts gas prices on Tuesday are the same as a month ago and 25 cents lower than this day last year. Massachusetts’ average gas price is 11 cents lower than the national average. 

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