BankFive’s Medeiros, YMCA’s Coppolino among PBN’s 2026 C-Suite honorees recognized
PROVIDENCE - Paul Medeiros, executive vice president and director of commercial lending for BankFive, has been named the 2026 Career Achiever for Providence Business...
Stonehill College to purchase Easton Country Club for $6.5M
EASTON – Stonehill College has agreed to purchase the 150‑acre Easton Country Club for $6.5 million, a move the school says will expand academic, athletic...
Report: R.I. offers 54 affordable units for every 100 extremely low-income households
PROVIDENCE – For every 100 extremely low-income households, Rhode Island provides just 54 affordable and available units, according to a new report by the...
R.I. State Council on the Arts gets $75K for creative‑aging arts programming
PROVIDENCE - The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts has been awarded a $77,500 national grant to expand creative‑aging arts programming for older...
Legislator: State should consider adding a dental school at URI
A Senate-led special legislative commission concluded in January that the University of Rhode Island is well-poised to open a public medical school on its Kingston...
URI’s W. Alton Jones Campus to reopen
WEST GREENWICH – An initiative has been launched to reopen the University of Rhode Island’s W. Alton Jones Campus within five years, the school...
Pentagon to cut ties with Brown and others Hegseth accuses of ‘wokeness’
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Brown University, Columbia, Yale, and other universities starting next school year...
Providence nonprofit taps Ukrainian leader to guide global human‑rights accelerator
PROVIDENCE – Global Fellows in Courage, a nonprofit working to empower young human‑rights advocates around the world, has come a long way in five years.
When...
Fagan named executive director of Newport Restoration Foundation
NEWPORT – Hilary Fagan, the former president and chief operating officer of R.I. Commerce Corp., has been named executive director of the Newport Restoration Foundation.
Fagan will...
CCRI steps into apprenticeship gap
Rhode Island reached a record number of jobs in 2025 – with the count exceeding 515,000 last April – but industry leaders warn that...
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