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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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...
THE HEALING TOUCH: University of Rhode Island assistant professor Daniel Roxbury, left, and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee display the “smart bandage” they spent two years developing. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI researchers are the brains behind ‘smart bandage’

Imagine a future with a bandage that could sense whether an infection was developing and could tell the patient or caregiver to get the...

McKee mandates masks in all Rhode Island school districts

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee issued an executive order mandating all school districts in the state to require students to wear masks in...
/ RENDERING COURTESY I-195 REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.

Pennrose $48M Parcel 9 apartment project gets concept plan approval with...

PROVIDENCE – The Parcel 9 project in the I-195 Redevelopment District, a massive two-phase mixed use development proposed in Fox Point, is undergoing some...
A Wayland Square mixed use residential project is favoring bicycles instead of parking spaces. But the Providence Planning Commission, during its meeting on Tuesday, put a pause approving the master plan, posting deliberations at the applicant’s request until a Sept 28 meeting. The commission has lingering questions about parking and the height of the building. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE CITY PLAN COMMISSION

Celtics co-owner’s Wayland Square project proposal limits car spaces, favors bicycles

PROVIDENCE – The Providence City Plan Commission is calling a timeout in the approval process for a new mixed-use development in Wayland Square, asking...
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