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New England jobless rate rises to 7.1% in June
BOSTON – The unemployment rate for New England rose 0.2 percentage points in June to 7.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
Providence Equity to buy corporate training businesses for $180M
PROVIDENCE — Informa PLC announced Friday that the group has signed a definitive agreement to sell its five corporate training businesses to Providence...
BLS: Providence metro workers earn 3% more than national average
BOSTON — Workers in the Providence metro area earned an hourly wage about 3 percent more than the national average in May 2012 —...
Providence is No. 2 city for ice cream in U.S.
NEW YORK — Providence earned the No. 2 spot on Travel + Lesiure’s “America’s Best Cities for Ice Cream” in the magazine’s July 2013...
RISD tops list of best animation, game design schools on East...
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island School of Design and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ranked first and 17th respectively in Animation Career Review’s Top 20...
Aquidneck Land Trust acquires 10-acre conservation easement
MIDDLETOWN — Aquidneck Land Trust has acquired a perpetual conservation easement from the Randall family on 10.65 acres of land on Newport’s Berkeley Avenue,...
USDA to provide floodplain easement funding to aid post-Sandy recovery
WASHINGTON — In an effort to prevent damages from future storm and flood events in Rhode Island, as well as other states affected by...
Operation Stand Down R.I. to receive $1.3M for veterans
WASHINGTON — Operation Stand Down Rhode Island will receive more than $1.3 million from two separate federal grants to assist at-risk and homeless veterans...
R.I. has best 2Q since 2008, says Mollis
PROVIDENCE — Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis released data on Friday that indicates that April through June was Rhode Island’s best second quarter...
URI lands $1M for climate change education from NSF
NARRAGANSETT — The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, enabling the...
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