Pawtucket celebrates its artists
To a large part of the public, the most memorable events of the three-week-long Pawtucket Arts Festival may be the kickoff concert at McCoy...
A new way to deal with emphysema
Rhode Island Hospital is one of the first testing sites for a new treatment for emphysema that requires inserting fingertip-sized umbrella-shaped devices into the...
Giving African doctors a boost
In Liberia, where the government health care system has a budget that’s 12 percent of what it was 12 years ago, there are 27...
Show links independent jewelry makers, suppliers
With the jewelry manufacturing industry in Rhode Island made up increasingly of smaller, independent artisans – as opposed to the big machine shops that...
Deadline looming for SBA help for mill fire
BOSTON – Businesses, nonprofits and residents whose property was damaged by the Bernat Mill Complex fire in Uxbridge have until Sept. 21 to submit...
Music and nostalgia in tidy boxes
Down a flight of stairs from street level, through a foyer covered floor to ceiling with stacked shelving, and What Cheer Antiques opens up...
Amgen scores victory in anemia-drug patent suit
Amgen Inc., the world’s biggest biotechnology company, said a U.S. judge last week ruled that Roche Holding AG’s new anemia drug, Mircera, infringes an...
Providence Equity and 3i selling <br> Sparrowhawk Holdings to NBC Universal
LONDON – NBC Universal has agreed to buy global pay-TV provider Sparrowhawk Holdings from Providence Equity Partners, 3i Group and management shareholders, for...
15 local firms among Inc. fastest-growing
NEW YORK – Twelve Rhode Island-based companies and three from Bristol County, Mass., are among the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing firms, according to a new...
R.I. issues call for ‘smart-growth’ proposals
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Housing, accompanied by the R.I. Department of Planning and Grow Smart Rhode Island, today announced a $10 million affordable-housing and...
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