A lawsuit over compliance with the MBTA zoning law aims to prevent a "domino effect" of noncompliance that could worsen housing costs.
Dave Peterson, the beating heart of the Worcester Bravehearts, is one of three candidates running for the open District 1 seat in 2023.
State lawmakers have stuffed the state's 2024 budget full of funds for local initiatives. Here's how Worcester will benefit.
Jenny Pacillo, well known in the Worcester political scene, started her path toward a city council run due to an interest in civic minutiae.
Meet candidates running for Worcester School Committee, mayor and city council at events across the city.
Maureen Schwab was inspired to run after learning about changes to local streets in her Green Island neighborhood.
Ted Kostas is one of the few Republicans in the 2023 council races. He's competing against four other candidates in District 4.
Montero is one of three candidates competing in the Worcester District 5 city council preliminary.
Worcester state Sen. Robyn Kennedy has lent her support to a new abortion bill that could change how crisis pregnancy centers do business.
Councilors voted in July 2022 for a law regulating the anti-abortion centers, but City Manager Eric Batista declined to bring it forward.
Councilors voted for an ordinance on the anti-abortion centers in 2022. Worcester's top attorney stalled, texts with a state AG show.
The Main Street outpost opened in 2020, offering a community meeting space and a way to access a range of city services.
The Worcester 311 phone app has been available for months, but it will be available in full for non-emergency complaints starting July 11.
The city's renewed Clean Team is part of an expansion of the Quality of Life team.
A recent battle in the state Legislature sought to regulate the HDIP tax incentive, which subsidizes higher-end rental housing.
Worcester Councilor Thu Nguyen wanted to regulate the centers as other cities had. Maura Healey's office advised Worcester officials not to.
Both the water and sewer rates will increase by a few cents on July 1 when fiscal year 2024 begins.
King became the first Black man elected to council in 2016. He'll face off against longtime colleague Mayor Joseph Petty Jr.
The Affordable Housing Trust Fund waded through a tangle of LLCs and property ownership before voting against funding for 2 Gage St.
The building where four people died in the May 2022 fire had many code violations. The owner wants to rebuild with help from a public fund.
Worcester will end the fiscal year paying $1.4 million more in overtime. Police bodycam training and school employee costs drove the rise.
Ed Augustus has a long record in government. But the Healey administration has little to reveal about his hiring as housing chief.
Worcester's 2023 election is shaping up to be an expensive one with many candidates flush with cash — more than usual at this point.
State Rep. Peter Durant, R-Charlton, follows Democrat Jonathan Zlotnik into the race as Gobi heads to the Healey administration.
The six-room shelter at Zion Lutheran in Greendale for small families could open in 2024, organizers say.
Is Worcester headed in the right direction? A new chamber poll sketches how residents are feeling about schools, crime, housing and more.
Worcester's 2023 election will feature four uncontested races, all for newly created school committee seats.
The deadline to run in Worcester's 2023 election is coming up on May 30. Here are the candidates who have been certified to run.
Gardner Democrat Jonathan Zlotnik filed to run for the Worcester and Hampshire district with Ann Gobi headed to work for Gov. Maura Healey.
State Sen. Ann Gobi will take charge of economic development in rural areas beginning in June.
The state is now allowing cannabis seeds and clones to be sold directly to consumers to grow at home.
Councilors were set to vote on $1,300 police stipends this week, but the funding was approved nearly a year ago, the city solicitor says.
The ACLU of Massachusetts had warned of potential litigation over the “Small Town Pride” event due to free speech issues.
A Worcester police union has negotiated a $1,300 annual pay bump for wearing bodycams, plus $650 before the end of June.
The city manager has called municipal broadband "very impossible," but a city task force set up in 2021 is still studying the plan.
The ACLU of Massachusetts wants a response from the town by Wednesday requesting a drag show be allowed as part of a gay pride event.
State watch dogs like the auditor and attorney general would probe ties between OSV and the Worcester Cultural Academy.
The ACLU of Massachusetts is asking the town to reverse its decision related to a gay pride event set for June.
Guillermo Creamer, who lost a bid for a council seat in 2021, said Tuesday he'll run for mayor, the first to formally challenge Joe Petty.
Worcester's last equity officer resigned in February 2022. City Manager Eric Batista has sought to restructure the DEI department.