Nancy Lavin
Prosecutors press forward after uncovering $8.9M in COVID-19 relief fraud across...
PROVIDENCE – It started with a phone call to a local police department. A resident warned that two local businessmen had applied for federal...
Honeywell to close Smithfield factory, 122 workers to be laid off
SMITHFIELD – Honeywell International Inc. is shutting down its Smithfield factory in November, with 122 workers set to lose their jobs.
The manufacturing company gave...
State announces $700K in grants for local farmers, fishers
PROVIDENCE – More than 40 Rhode Island farmers and fishers were awarded funding through the state’s Local Agricultural and Seafood Act Grants program, Gov....
Providence pension system not on city’s legislative priorities list
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett Smiley still wants Providence to join the state pension system as one way to ease the city's pension crisis. But...
Report: RIHEBC bonds generated $2.4B in state spending from 2016-2022
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Health and Educational Building Corp. has generated $2.4 billion in economic impacts and created 3,200 jobs based on the...
Bristol County Savings Bank donates $92K to 11 R.I. nonprofits
TAUNTON – Bristol County Savings Bank through its charitable foundation recently donated $91,500 to 11 nonprofits in northern Rhode Island.
The grants were part of...
R.I. legislation would extend retirement savings to all workers
PROVIDENCE – More than 4 in 10 Rhode Island workers don’t have access to retirement savings plans through their job.
Legislation recently introduced in the...
$27M grant could finish Providence’s bike lane network, but Smiley noncommittal
PROVIDENCE – A new, $27 million federal grant could hypothetically cover the cost to finish former Mayor Jorge O. Elorza’s ambitious “urban trail” network.
But...
Starting over hasn’t curbed manufacturer’s desire to improve, innovate
(Editor’s note: This is the sixth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
A lost clause? FTC may ban noncompete pacts
Thirty million people. That’s how many workers federal regulators say could find new jobs, increase their wages, or even start their own companies if...
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