BUSINESS & ECONOMY

CRRC recently announced it would furlough more than 160 employees beginning in March at its Springfield facility. Delivery of crucial parts of rail cars to be built there has been held up due to a trade dispute with the federal government.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will deliver the annual State of the Commonwealth address on Thursday evening.

Tina Packer, who in 1978, founded Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., died over the weekend.

Residents in western Massachusetts towns that surround the Quabbin Reservoir want better financial compensation and a bigger role in making decisions related to the water resource.

According to new research from Harvard Medical School, the number of primary care providers leaving traditional practice and using a membership model has gone up by about 80 percent since 2018.

Valley Medical Group says it’s entering a partnership with a Cambridge-based company to negotiate better insurance contracts and eventually offer better care. They hope to avoid becoming part of a large hospital system, as many primary care practices have done.

U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, a Springfield Democrat, says some of the GOP members who broke away from Speaker Mike Johnson on ACA vote were facing pressure in their respective districts.

Today on The Rundown, panelists discuss legal social cannabis consumption coming to Mass., a lack in racial diversity in western Mass. public offices, and stalled development of Sublime Systems expansion in Holyoke following a grant rescission.

We speak with author Chuck Collins about the elite class and his book, "Burner by Billionaires," preview the Northampton Book Fair this weekend and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

During a meeting of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission Thursday in Springfield, the city's mayor, Domenic Sarno, told the panel MGM has not lived up to its part of the deal when it comes to developing a property near the casino it operates.