Steel wheels are rumbling across southern New England in greater numbers again. more

When industry insiders talk international travel in Rhode Island, they really don’t. more

In southern New England, most of the seafood you see and eat comes from halfway around the world. Unless you pay close attention to where your fish is coming from, it is likely that it is from China or Canada, and the same can be said throughout the country. more

Last week’s report from the R.I. Citizens for the Arts provided some welcome news. It appears that the creative economy is alive and well in the Ocean State. more

Through April of this year, Rhode Island continued to have the second-highest unemployment rate in the United States, leaving the state with 62,178 people unemployed. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April was 11.2 percent, a one-tenth of a percentage point increase from the March rate. In fact, a double-digit unemployment rate is forecast for Rhode Island through the end of 2013. more

When Kristin Fraser was 22 years old, she started her first job and never left. more

Carolyn Rafaelian can’t wait to get up in the morning and come to work. She expects her employees feel the same way. more

The biggest leap for Cathy Demain Mann was going out on her own after 10 years of working for someone else. “The back-up support – with everything at your fingertips – was gone,” said Mann, the owner of Creative Impressions Inc. more

For a college student with little experience in the world of business, career networking with corporate executives can be an intimidating task. more

Merrill W. Sherman knows a few things about banking. In the early 1990s, she was named president, chairman and CEO of Eastland Financial Corp., and was charged with turning that institution around after years of losing money. She did it. more