Newport buys 5.3 acres in North End</br> from RIDOT for $1.5M
NEWPORT – The city has agreed to purchase a 5.34-acre North End parcel from the R.I. Department of Transportation, Gov. Donald L. Carcieri announced...
NSTAR Electric proposes 8% rate cut
BOSTON – NSTAR (NYSE: NST) has proposed cuts in electrical rates that would pare costs for residential customers and small business customers by...
Verizon gets OK for FiOS TV in R.I. ‘Area 6’
WARWICK – Verizon Communications has been granted final approval by the R.I. Division of Public Utilities and Carriers to begin offering television service via...
U.S. new-home sales surge 16.2%
WASHINGTON – Sales of new single-family homes rose 16.2 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted rate of 981,000 houses per year from the...
Durable goods rise for 3rd month, by 0.6%
WASHINGTON – New orders for durable goods last month increased 0.6 percent to $217.9 billion, slowing from March’s revised 5.0-percent rise, according to preliminary...
RIMES to move into RIEDC’s offices
For 11 years, the Rhode Island Manufacturing Extension Service – better known as RIMES – has helped the state’s manufacturers improve efficiency, revamp their...
National Grid, Steelworkers in tentative pact
WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – National Grid today announced a tentative three-year agreement with Local 12321-01 of the United Steelworkers.
The USW unit, whose current contract...
Feedback sought on waterfront park design
PROVIDENCE – Two upcoming public meetings will showcase the design for the parks that are to be created on two waterfront parcel made available...
Paulson terms China talks ‘very productive’
WASHINGTON – Two days of what U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. described today as “very productive” talks with Chinese Vice Premier...
MBA: U.S. mortgage applications rise 1.6%
WASHINGTON – U.S. applications for housing loans increased last week, after declining the week before, according to a report today from the Mortgage Bankers...
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