WORCESTER - The candidates for three contested district seats on the City Council faced a variety of questions about police funding, taxes, traffic and Duffy Field during a debate at Mechanics Hall Monday night.

WORCESTER — Two more debates will be held at Mechanics Hall this week as candidates make the final push before the Nov. 2 municipal election.

WORCESTER — The candidates in this fall’s citSchool Committee race squared off Wednesday night in a debate that often found them on common ground on the most pressing district issues.

WORCESTER — Candidates for the six at-large City Council seats in November let voters know Wednesday where they stood on everything from perennial Worcester issues to the impact of, and recovery from, the COVID-19 pandemic.

WORCESTER - The common thread linking the six recipients of the 2021 Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards is that all of them thought they were simply doing their jobs when they stepped up to improve the lives of others.

As a native son of Worcester, I grew up in a city that didn’t know whether it wanted to be Wormtown or the “Paris of the 80s.” We’ve always had a bit of a complex. Do we even want to be a city? Or do we want to be a town?

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority Advisory Board voted overwhelmingly to continue fare-free service for the next 6 months while a new fare-collection system is implemented, a compromise reached after discussion of the effort revealed deep divisions among board members

Members of the Zero Fare Coalition rallied outside the Worcester Regional Transit Authority Hub Monday in support of using millions in federal relief funds to continue free bus service for another year.

A Fitchburg police officer and Worcester's liaison to the movie industry are among those being recognized with Thomas S. Green Public Service Awards.

Jane Jacobs was an urban design pioneer, widely celebrated for her 1961 landmark text, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”