William Hamilton
William Hamilton joined Providence Business News as the special projects editor in February 2019. Before that, he had been a content editor and Sunday business editor at The Providence Journal. He was a PBN staff writer from 2007 to 2011, and had previously written and edited for the Fall River Herald News, the Pawtucket Times and the Kent County Daily Times. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island.
Scituate businessman pleads guilty to evading paying $428,700 in federal taxes
PROVIDENCE – A Scituate businessman, who prosecutors say claimed he was not a United States citizen on his tax forms and that his earnings...
CCRI partners with charter high school for ‘seamless pathway’ to nursing...
WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island is partnering with a nursing charter high school to remove barriers and provide a "seamless pathway"...
Raimondo orders ‘comprehensive review’ of Providence schools
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo is directing the state Department of Education to conduct a "comprehensive review" of the Providence school system to...
Got student debt? Commerce RI accepting new applications for Wavemaker Fellowship
PROVIDENCE – The state’s Wavemaker Fellowship program that provides recent college graduates working in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields with student-loan reimbursement is...
Accrediting agency accepts CCRI’s fifth-year report
WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island has received a passing grade when it comes to its accreditation.The New England Commission of Higher...
Programming on Oliver Hazard Perry headed in new direction
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The nonprofit group that operates Rhode Island's official Tall Ship, the Oliver Hazard Perry, has changed course, and the group says...
RWU interim president takes provost job at Pa. university
BRISTOL – Roger Williams University's interim president is leaving the school to take the position of provost of Widener University, in Chester, Pa.Andrew Workman,...
Report: R.I. a leader in quality pre-K, but access still too...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has boosted spending and enrolled more children in prekindergarten, but access to public preschool programs remains low in the Ocean...
URI School of Education gets $1.2M for scholarships aimed at STEM...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island's School of Education has been awarded $1.2 million for a National Science Foundation scholarship program aimed...
Ex-R.I. state senator sentenced to 2 years in prison for bank...
PROVIDENCE – Former state senator and businessman James E. Doyle II, 47, of Pawtucket, was sentenced Friday to two years in federal prison for...
