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Senators on Thursday plan to take up bills addressing craft breweries, stroke care and a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., according to Senate President Karen Spilka.
Various nursing jobs, from nursing assistants to nurse practitioners, make higher salaries in the Worcester metropolitan area and across Massachusetts than national averages, according to new federal data released Wednesday.
Central Massachusetts residents are more likely than most to say they always wear a mask or other face covering any time they're outside and expect to be within six feet of another person.
Worcester and Gardner are sharing in $3.6 million in MassDevelopment state funding aimed at helping communities develop challenging locations, including money benefiting a new Table Talk Pies facility in Worcester.
Single-family home sales in Worcester County dropped by more than one fifth in June compared to the same month the year prior, according to a recent report from Peabody real estate data firm The Warren Group.
Worcester insurer Fallon Health has joined in a partnership with a Utah-based health technology company to identify and support high-risk residents across Massachusetts.
Gov. Charlie Baker filed another one-month spending bill on Tuesday, that would keep state government funded through August with an additional $5.51 billion as the administration and legislative Democrats wait for the state's fuzzy budget picture to…
New House telehealth legislation aims to incorporate lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic into the state's health care system, according to Majority Leader Ron Mariano, who said he expects representatives to vote on the bill this week.
Greater Good Imperial Brewing Company continues to adapt, innovate and survive during the challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Most evictions and foreclosure will remain banned in Massachusetts until Oct. 17 under an extension to the COVID-prompted moratorium Gov. Charlie Baker triggered on Tuesday.
Massachusetts is implementing a new lottery admissions system for vocational-technical high schools, starting with the 2026-2027 school year. Proposed by the Healey Administration, the new lottery system is an attempt to expand access to voc-tech schools, giving schools with more applicants than seats the choice of either a weighted lottery, which takes aspects like attendance and discipline records into account, or a non-weighted lottery, which does not take academic performance or discipline issues into consideration.
Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and supporters of the lottery have defended the change to a lottery system, saying it will make admissions more equitable while the state works to expand access to voc-tech schools. The lottery system has been criticized by business groups and educational leaders, who have said lotteries will water down admission standards and disrupt the pathway of top students into high-demand trades.
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