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The report did not include a cost analysis, but a member of the Green Worcester Advisory Committee calculated it would cost $20 million.

Worcester City Committee has turned down a second request to City Hall to implement a plan to balance the needs of homes and businesses with rooftop solar panels with the planting of trees on public routes.

Concern in New England's second-largest city about street trees blocking solar panels ability to generate electricity.

A Worcester homeowner could be a test case of a challenge facing Worcester - how to balance public street trees and rooftop solar projects.

WORCESTER — The city’s beloved and belittled “Turtle Boy” better think twice next time it wants to tussle with an unsuspecting tortoise from behind because, after a 30-year hibernation, “Snapper” has popped its ugly, hungry head out of its mutated shell. A true Worcester creation, “Snapper” refers to both an unfinished independent film project about a shell-encrusted killer reptile on a feeding frenzy at Coes Pond (renamed "Lost Lake") and the subject of a new short-film documentary, “Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made,” by Providence-based filmmake...