WORCESTER ― Artificial intelligence has "extraordinary promise" and "extraordinary risk."

WORCESTER - Data is the lifeblood of Artificial Intelligence, Professor Renée Cummings told the crowd gathered for the Worcester Regional Research Bureau’s annual meeting Monday.

Worcester Regional Research Bureau Annual Meeting Preview with ED & CEO Paul Matthews.

WORCESTER — What do several former newspaper publishers, numerous company presidents, philanthropists, Worcester’s first city manager, a former Worcester bishop who later became a cardinal and the man behind Spag’s “Home of Spag-tacular Values” have in common?

Voters across the state, from Pittsfield to Boston, and all points in-between, are headed to the polls this Election Day to cast their ballots in a host of consequential contests.

The second-largest city in Massachusetts could see an overhaul of its city government on Election Day. Come Nov. 7, all 11 city council seats have multiple candidates running for office, GBH reported. And that’s not including candidates running for the city’s eight school committee positions.

The first thing voters will be asked to decide on the Worcester ballot is who the city’s next mayor should be, with five candidates, including the incumbent, running for office.

WORCESTER—Worcester’s charter has been raised several times during the debates leading up to the city’s Nov. 7 municipal election. In response, members of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau last week released a brief on the topic.

WORCESTER - Six terms as mayor of the city of Worcester gives Joseph M. Petty an advantage over his four rivals for the position going into the Nov. 7 municipal election.

WORCESTER - Incumbent District 5 City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj and local boxing luminary Jose Antonio Rivera earned reputations as fighters in two very different arenas. This was fully apparent on Wednesday, Oct. 18, in the sparring that took place between them during a district city councilor seats’ debate at Mechanics Hall.