Marc Larocque
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...
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...
$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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...