Greenway Conservancy fights back
City
Days after the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy received a letter from Massachusetts Department of Transportation Secretary Richard Davey advising them to prepare to... 1 hour ago | Business Journal |  
Zipcar to trick out City of Boston fleet vehicles for car sharing
Various departments of Boston city government will begin sharing cars using technology provided by Cambridge, Mass.-based Zipcar (Nasdaq: ZIP), the company announced Monday... 7 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Feds Probe Boston Hospital
Officials at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have confirmed that federal investigators have subpoenaed six years of hospital records as part of an investigation into whether... 7 hours ago | WCVB |  
Truck ban could drive up fuel costs
State transportation officials are considering forcing trucks carrying fuel and other hazardous materials to loop around Boston to the north and use Route 128 to get to the South... 8 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Power plants biggest greenhouse gas culprits
Power plants throughout eastern Massachusetts are the largest industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change in the state, the MetroWest Daily News... 8 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Beth Israel billing practices probed
Federal investigators are investigating whether Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center overbilled Medicare by admitting patients for short stays who could have been treated less... 8 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Report: NOAA lagging on policing reforms
A report by the Commerce Department's inspector general has determined that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's law enforcement branch has made many improvements... 8 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Apple Plant Workers Complain Of Long Hours
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. 8 hours ago | WCVB |  
Norwood real estate LLC files for Chapter 11
A Norwood real estate entity that registered as a corporation just two weeks ago has filed for protection on Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code. 34 Day Street (Norwood) LLC... 1 hour ago | Business Journal |  
New coalition backs Patrick on community college reform
A new coalition of heavyweight business, civic and nonprofit entities is lining up in support of Gov. Deval Patrick's controversial proposal centralize control over the state's... 2 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Wareham mobile park on auction block
A mobile home park in Wareham, Mass., near Cape Cod, is facing an Internal Revenue Service auction. The IRS has ordered the sale of the 21-site mobile home park at 3036 Cranberry... 2 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Gas prices rise again; Could hit $4 by May
Massachusetts gasoline prices are up two cents this week, marking the seventh week in a row gas prices have risen, according to AAA Southern New England. Nationally, experts are... 2 hours ago | Business Journal |  
'Nation's largest' cupcake chain to open in Boston's Financial District
Crumbs Bake Shop (NASDAQ: CRMB), a New York-based cupcake chain, will open its first Boston store in the city’s Financial District in the spring. The cupcakery will replace a... 3 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Brightcove sets IPO share range, boosts offering to up to $69M
Online video services firm Brightcove has boosted the amount of money its looking to raise from its IPO, to $69 million from $50 million, and said it expects to sell shares for up... 4 hours ago | Business Journal |  
Foreign object in your Big Mac? Save it, if you plan to sue McDonald's
If you want to sue McDonald's claiming you broke a tooth on a foreign object in a hamburger, you'd best save that foreign object, the state Appeals Court ruled Monday. Daniel L.... 4 hours ago | Business Journal |