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TURNAROUND TIME? Brown University Health has recently made leadership changes at Saint Anne’s Hospital in Fall River, which lost $8.9 million in fiscal 2025. The losses have continued in 2026. 
PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Cross-border toll: Brown Health’s Mass. facilities have lost millions; will it...

When state Rep. Lauren H. Carson saw Brown University Health’s financial performance earlier this year, she was fuming. Rhode Island’s largest health system reported a...
LAB WORK: Kaitlin Dailey, left, a University of Rhode Island assistant professor, monitors technician Victoria Coulter, a 2025 pharmaceutical sciences graduate, on URI’s South Kingstown campus. 
PBN PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

URI pharmacy enrollment rebounds after decline

When Kerry LaPlante decided to become a pharmacist, the opportunity to play a direct, accessible role in community health care served as a major...
CREDIT ­WORTHY: Conor ­McCloskey, left, Narragansett High School principal, and Narragansett schools Superintendent Peter Cummings, are pleased that the town topped the list of Rhode Island school districts that saw the biggest increase in students taking Advanced Placement exams over the last decade. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Advanced Placement participation surges across R.I. high schools

At Narragansett High School, students as young as freshmen are stepping into college-level classrooms, tackling Advanced Placement courses that just a decade ago few...

Forging a new bond: Should R.I. be seeking to borrow another...

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...
Jennifer 
B. Nuzzo

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...
A SWEET NEST: 
The 9,719-square-foot house known as The Bird House on Beacon Hill Road in Newport was sold by “Judge Judy” Sheindlin in September for $15.3 million, making it the highest-priced sale in Rhode Island in 2025. 
COURTESY GUSTAVE WHITE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

MORE MILLIONS: Seven-figure home sales spreading away from waterfront

The Rhode Island waterfront has always been the domain for high-end home sales as the wealthy gladly pay steep premiums for houses with a...
COOL UNDER FIRE: Rebecca Zhukov, co-owner of Blackstone River Glass Center LLC in Cumberland, works with the furnace at the glass studio, which she started with her business partner about six years ago. 
PBN PHOTO/
MICHAEL SALERNO

Zhukov is building a community out of blown glass

A furnace the size of a Mini Cooper presides like an industrial centerpiece over the space that is Blackstone River Glass LLC. Inside the furnace’s...
TIME CONSCIOUS: Barry Dejasu of East Providence waits at Kennedy Plaza to make his R.I. Public Transit Authority bus home after arriving on a bus from Warwick, where he works. RIPTA service changes have made his commute longer and more complex.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

WEAKENED CONNECTIONS: RIPTA’s service cuts disrupting sectors of R.I. workforce

For years, East Providence resident Barry Dejasu’s commute to Warwick followed the same routine: Leave the house at around 7:30 a.m., walk to the...
HANDIWORK: Tool maker Bobby Bianca operates a milling machine on the production floor at Warwick Hanger Co. in Westerly. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

MEET THE MAKERS: Westerly factory specializes in crucial, mostly concealed, construction...

(Editor’s note: This is the 41st installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s ­unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
QUIET FOR THE MOMENT: Gretchen Anderson, senior clinical director of ambulatory and outpatient behavioral health at Butler Hospital, stands at the desk outside the hospital’s Express Care walk-in clinic, catering to people in need of immediate mental health services. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS  

New ‘Express Care’ clinic bridges mental health gap

With outpatient mental health clinicians often having weekslong to monthslong waiting lists, people experiencing acute mental health difficulties often find that their only option...
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