Sunday, September 13, 2026

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United Way of Rhode Island works to build on previous success with 401Gives Day...

PROVIDENCE – For the seventh straight year, 401Gives Day will try to raise significant money for hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the Ocean State...

Mullen named women’s basketball coach at URI

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Colleen Mullen, the 2025 America East Coach of the Year who spent two years with the Rams as a player from 1998-2000, has...

Report: Court appoints special master to oversee finances of ailing Croft School

PROVIDENCE – A veteran attorney has been appointed by a Rhode Island judge to oversee the finances of the cash-strapped Croft School, WPRI-TV CBS...

Duffy stepping down as co-executive director of AS220

PROVIDENCE – AS220 will see changes to its leadership this summer.  Shauna Duffy, who has been with AS220 for nearly 30 years, is stepping down as co-executive director...

Forging a new bond: Should R.I. be seeking to borrow another $120M for housing...

For motorists zipping by on Route 2, it’s easy to miss the Pine View Apartments in Exeter. They’re located away from the road and...
TALKING HEALTH CARE: John Marchant, center left, leads a recent meeting of the Scituate Health Alliance, along with alliance treasurer Wendy Marchant, center right; secretary Courtney Cheng, foreground left; and Jared R. Neirinckx. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Could Scituate primary care safety net be an answer for R.I.?

Dr. Michael Fine says he walked into the emergency department at The Miriam Hospital in Providence and saw “people spilling into the halls all...

Build a resilient workforce

Rosemary A. Costigan | Community College of Rhode Island president Resilience is not something that happens by chance. It is cultivated deliberately through foresight,...
PICTURE OF POWER: The flow of the Blackstone River fueled Rhode Island mills for centuries, but now Blackstone Watershed Collaborative is one of the nonprofits working on improvements to the river, including commissioning a hydrologic and hydraulic study. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Group prepares to build on Blackstone River revival

The Blackstone River played a key role in the Industrial Revolution: more than 100 mills and mill villages were built around it and its...
NEW HOME: Loren M. Spears is executive director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, which has spent years fundraising and clearing regulatory hurdles to establish a larger, more accessible home for the museum at the University of Rhode Island campus in South Kingstown. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Tomaquag Museum hopes to break ground on new larger facility at URI this year

The 800-square-foot building that houses the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s only Indigenous museum, is a tight squeeze for its 12,000 cultural belongings, well over...
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Resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming

In the three decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – a few hundred cases each year, at most. As...
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