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Judge blocks preliminary plan for Fox Point 75-apartment mixed-use development

PROVIDENCE – The developers of a proposed mixed-use building in the Fox Point neighborhood of the city that would include 75 residential units are...

Report: Chronic disease, housing costs, food insecurity take heavy toll in...

FALL RIVER – High rates of chronic disease, housing cost burden and food insecurity are top concerns impacting health incomes in southeastern Massachusetts, local...

Five Questions With: Isaac Stoner

Isaac Stoner is the newly appointed CEO of MindImmune Therapeutics, a University of Rhode Island spinout company working to develop novel treatments for Alzheimer’s...

Unionized interns and residents at 4 R.I. hospitals remain in ongoing...

PROVIDENCE – Amid contract negotiations, more than 650 resident physicians and fellows at Kent County Memorial, Women & Infants, Butler and Rhode Island hospitals...

Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals to remain open through January; Neronha urges...

PROVIDENCE – The Centurion Foundation, the financially stymied but leading potential buyer of Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, now...

Women & Infants caregivers allege health, safety and staffing issues

PROVIDENCE – Unionized caregivers at Women & Infants Hospital earlier this month gathered to demand that parent company Care New England Health System address concerns around patient safety, staff training and infrastructure. Service...
STRING SKILLS: Machine operator Maria Dacruz works on the production floor of Neocorp Inc., a standard and technical rope and bungee cord maker in Pawtucket. Neocorp is among the local manufacturers that have dealt with inflated tariffs in 2025. 
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MICHAEL SALERNO

THE TOLL OF TARIFFS: Factories under strain as they try to...

If there was one thing Rose Wood had been able to count on as a buyer at Pawtucket manufacturer Neocorp Inc., it was that...
FINAL TOUCHES: Manufacturing technician Noel Laflamme sets up a job on the laser cutter at metal fabricator Ward’s Manufacturing LLC in Warren.
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For Ward’s, survival of tariffs required complete overhaul of business

Less than a year ago, Kelly Ward, co-founder and president of Ward’s Manufacturing LLC, envisioned that the company would be spending the spring and...
FILLING A NEED: ­Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling says he started Rhode Island-based nonprofit Turtle Island Community Capital to help foster economic sovereignty in Native communities. 
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Everybody’s Business: Looking to give Indigenous entrepreneurs a big lift

When Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling returned to his home state of Rhode Island in 2022, he asked local members of his tribe, the Ramapo...
PLAYING NOW: Alex Whitney is director of operations at Jane Pickens Theater in Newport, a location that first started showing films in the 1920s and continues to operate in part because of the mix of events that take place there, such as a recent “Remembering Robert Redford” film series. 
PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

At small local theaters, the plot still thickens

For almost as long as the concept of a modern movie theater has existed, Jane Pickens Theater LLC has been drawing filmgoers. “Someone’s been showing...
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