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‘Briarcliff’ sale for $4M is highest real estate deal in Portsmouth...

Real Estate 09/01/2021

PORTSMOUTH – A Portsmouth home known as “Briarcliff” was sold for $4.05 million, making it the biggest real estate deal in the town since...

Contemporary brick home in Lincoln sells for $1.2M

Real Estate 09/01/2021

LINCOLN – With 10-foot ceilings and a contemporary brick exterior, a spacious home at 1 Morning Star Court was sold for $1.2 million, according...

THE LARGEST HOSPICE provider in Rhode Island, HopeHealth, announced on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, that it is has merged with the Attleboro-based Community VNA, absorbing the Massachusetts nonprofit as part of an affiliation deal. Community VNA will now be known as HopeHealth Community VNA. This image shows the main office for Community VNA at 10 Emory St. in Attleboro. / COURTESY HOPEHEALTH

HopeHealth absorbs Community VNA in nonprofit merger

Health Services 09/01/2021

PROVIDENCE – The Providence-based HopeHealth, the largest hospice provider in Rhode Island, is absorbing a fellow Massachusetts nonprofit Community VNA, combining their forces to...

Many Rhode Island businesses are struggling with the question of whether to enforce a vaccine requirement on their employees, asking how such a policy could impact their bottom line, and whether it would be worth it with all the potential complications it could cause within the workforce. / AP FILE PHOTO / TED S. WARREN

Many Rhode Island companies struggle with question of vaccine mandates

Coronavirus 08/30/2021

PROVIDENCE – Many Rhode Island businesses are struggling with the question of whether to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine requirement on their employees, asking how...

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of R.I. joins list of companies...

Coronavirus 08/27/2021

PROVIDENCE – The largest health insurer in the Rhode Island and one of the state’s biggest employers, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island...

Rhode Island Gov. Daniel J. McKee is called on businesses during his weekly COVID-19 update on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021, to implement vaccine mandates. /AP File Photo / Steven Senne

McKee, health officials urge R.I. businesses to adopt vaccine mandates

Coronavirus 08/26/2021

PROVIDENCE – With the recent approval of a COVID-19 vaccination by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rhode Island Gov. Daniel J. McKee is...

The Roger Williams Gateway Center project is expected to be completed in the spring of 2022, according to the Department of Planning and Development. A groundbreaking was held on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. / Courtesy INFORM design studio.

$5M park gateway project coming to South Providence business corridor

Government 08/24/2021

PROVIDENCE – Spanning high above the entrance to the park, a long set of bright, multicolored fins is meant to represent the diversity and...

MARKET BASKET opened a new store at 1300 Hartford Ave. in Johnston, Rhode Island, on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. It's the company's second store in Rhode Island, after the first it opened in Warwick in May 2021. The Johnston Market Basket will be the 86th store operating between Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. / COURTESY MARKET BASKET

Market Basket brings 400 jobs to new $30M Johnston store, its...

Food & Agriculture 08/20/2021

JOHNSTON – As a line of eager shoppers waited outside to get a first look, doors opened at a new Market Basket in Johnston...

TAKING ACTION: Dr. Olutosin Ojugbele, a pediatrician at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, led the hospital’s application process for the “Accelerating Child Health Care Transformation” initiative. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Initiative at Hasbro Children’s Hospital to examine racial biases in pediatrics

Health Matters 08/20/2021

Pediatric health care isn’t immune from racial inequities. That’s the starting point for a new grant-funded program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence and 11...