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GoodFella Vapor closes Somerset shop due to sales ban on vaping...

SOMERSET – GoodFella Vapor announced it has closed its shop here due to Gov. Charlie Baker’s ongoing ban on vaping products, The Herald News...

Auto imports at Port of Davisville break record by mid-Oct.

NORTH KINGSTOWN – The Port of Davisville has already broken its auto import record this year, importing 242,568 automobiles by Oct. 18, the Quonset...

East Providence budget becomes law without mayor’s signature

EAST PROVIDENCE – Mayor Bob DaSilva has allowed the city’s $188 million fiscal year 2020 budget, a 3.2% increase over last year, to become...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall moves closer with arrival of panels in...

FALL RIVER – Aluminum panels engraved with the names of fallen soldiers that will be part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in the...

Baker administration estimates vaping ban costing stores up to $8M in...

PROVIDENCE – A three-month ban on retail nicotine and marijuana vaping products in Massachusetts has the potential to cost private businesses $7 million to...

Raimondo sues over marijuana regulatory power; GA signals it was already...

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo on Oct. 22 filed a lawsuit in Superior Court that argues against a provision of the fiscal 2020...

More than 12K register for R.I. mobile sports, less than half...

PROVIDENCE – Less than half of the more than 12,000 people who have signed up for online sports betting in Rhode Island have taken...

R.I. median home price jumps to $295K in Sept.

PROVIDENCE – The median price of a single-family home in Rhode Island in September was $295,000, a 9.1% increase year over year, according to...

Bond funds proposed to protect wastewater treatment plants, preserve coastal areas

PROVIDENCE – Proposals to evenly divide $10 million approved by voters as part of the 2018 Green Economy and Clean Water Bond to protect...

Washington Trust reports $4.8M mortgage banking revenues in Q3

WESTERLY – The Trump administration’s push for ever-lower interest rates is squeezing banks’ earnings, just a year after Trump’s tax cuts left banks awash...
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