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PITCHING IN: From left, National Grid Rhode Island employees Walter Palmer and Chelsea Perkins help paint a room at a homeless shelter for the Community Care Alliance in Woonsocket on Oct. 19. National Grid employees volunteer their time for a variety of causes throughout the state.
 / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELeY

National Grid empowers employees’ community service

Business Excellence Awards 2018 Community involvement: National Grid Rhode Island National Grid Rhode Island dives right in when it comes to community service – or at...
FUNDED BY ENERGY COMPANIES, the Good Neighbor Energy Fund is administered by the United Way to help eligible Rhode Islanders pay their winter heating bills. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/ANDREW HARRER

Energy companies pitch in for ‘Good Neighbor Energy Fund’

PROVIDENCE – National Grid Rhode Island and other energy companies have pitched in again for the “Rhode Island Good Neighbor Energy Fund” to help...

S.K. businesses take advantage of RIIB energy-efficiency financing

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Three businesses in the town have recently taken advantage of a Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank program to help businesses finance their...
THE AVERAGE PRICE OF regular gas in Rhode Island declined 4 cents this week to $2.77 per gallon, 1 cent higher than the national average and 2 cents lower than the average price of regular gas in Massachusetts. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/AKOS STILLER

R.I. gas drops 4 cents, Mass. gas ticks down 1 cent...

PROVIDENCE – The average price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island declined 4 cents this week to $2.77 per gallon, 1 cent...

Opinion: Vote yes on Question 3

On November 6, Rhode Island voters have an historic opportunity to champion some of the best things about Rhode Island, the things that make...
THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Environmental Management has announced $2.6 million in brownfield grans to 12 projects. The funding was the remaining balance of the 2016 Green Economy Bond.

DEM awards $2.6M in brownfield grants from remaining 2016 Green Economy...

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management announced a $2.6 million round of funding allocation from the 2016 Green Economy Bond in brownfield...
RETURNING FOR its 12th year, Newport Restaurant Week will take place from Nov. 2 through Nov. 11. This year, the event will feature a new pricing scale as well as partnership with two local nonprofit organizations. / COURTESY DISCOVER NEWPORT

Restaurants band together for 12th Newport Restaurant Week

NEWPORT - The eight-day-long fall edition of Newport Restaurant Week returns for its 12th year with an updated pricing structure and nonprofit partners. From Nov....
GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. reported a $22.9 billion net loss for the third quarter. The company said this was largely due to a $22 billion non-cash goodwill impairment related to GE Power. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/DANIEL ACKER

GE posts major loss, slashes dividend, revamps power as new CEO...

NEW YORK - General Electric Co. slashed its quarterly dividend to just a penny a share and outlined a reorganization of its troubled power...
RHODE ISLAND regular gas prices declined 1 cent to average $2.81 per gallon this week. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/DANIEL ACKER

R.I. gas prices drop 1 cent, level with national average

PROVIDENCE – The average price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island declined 1 cent this week to $2.81 per gallon, level with...
BEACH CLEANUP: Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone, left, speaks with a volunteer at a cleanup in the Oakland Beach neighborhood of Warwick during last year’s International Coastal Cleanup Day. Above right, a logo in support of Question No. 3 on next month’s ballot created by Save The Bay. 
 / COURTESY SAVE THE BAY

For nonprofits, less is more on political advocacy

Rhode Island nonprofits, to varying degrees, have thrown their weight behind certain causes in past elections that align with their missions. But some have learned...
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