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URI researchers uncover fossilized tooth of massive shark

NARRAGANSETT – Every day, researchers sort through an abundance of marine samples that come through the University of Rhode Island's Marine Geological Samples Laboratory. Less...

Malcolm Mitchell, Cox launch Innovation Lab at Boys & Girls Clubs...

WOONSOCKET – Former New England Patriots wide receiver Malcolm Mitchell and Cox Communications are teaming up to launch a technology-focused Innovation Lab at the Boys...

R.I. Business Competition gears up for Elevator Pitch Contest

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Business Competition will hold an Elevator Pitch Contest next week, and interested entrepreneurs still have a few days to apply. The...

URI researchers to develop robotics platforms to map, measure icebergs

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Through iceberg measurements, scientists can gain a wealth of environmental data and prevent maritime damage and disruptions. But getting close enough to these icebergs...

AstroNova expands QuickLabel printer line

WEST WARWICK – Data visualization company AstroNova Inc. recently began production of the QL-E100, a new addition to its QuickLabel printer line aimed at an entry-level...

Brown provides early start to STEAM education for Providence students

PROVIDENCE – Students as young as kindergarteners will have an opportunity to embark on a science, technology, engineering, arts and math, or STEAM, education through...

HousingWorks: Multilevel change needed to improve affordability

PROVIDENCE – Just three of Rhode Island's 39 communities offer housing affordable to renters earning $50,000 or less, and only one municipality hosts two-bedroom...
POTENTIAL PAVILION: Roger Williams Park Zoo Executive Director Stacey Johnson shows the area where a new, $12 million educational facility and events pavilion will be built if Rhode Island voters approve a $50 million “green economy” bond measure.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

MONEY MATTERS: $400M in bond issues on R.I. ballot as borrowing...

Matt Dunn and Rainer Lohmann are among the top researchers at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, but it’s tough to...
THIRTY-ONE cities and towns in Rhode Island will be voting to decide whether to allow cannabis retail sales in their communities at licensed locations. Because of a limited number of available licenses, not every community that OKs sales will have a cannabis shop within their borders. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

31 communities facing the cannabis question: Allow sales or not?

The way the state law legalizing recreational cannabis is written, it’s easier for cities and towns to allow the sale of marijuana in their...
TEMPORARY FIX: Kathleen Gannon, left, board chair of the Rhode Island Bike Coalition, rides across a temporary, boardwalk-style bridge as part of a detour along the East Bay Bike Path going over the Barrington River in Barrington with coalition members Judy Menton, center, and Chris Menton. The old bridge seen in the background is one of two along the bike path that will be replaced following an allocation of federal money for transportation infrastructure improvements awarded to the state in August.
PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Long-awaited bike bridges will use modular system

After nearly three years of uncertainty, frustration and sometimes outright pessimism for East Bay Bike Path users and alternative transportation advocates, the tentative replacement...
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