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THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Rhode Island, in partnership with the Rhode Island Nursery & Landscape Association and the Rhode Island Food Policy Council, a new associate degree program to help create careers in the state's land and sea industries. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI’s new degree program to help support state’s growing land, sea...

Economic Activity 07/08/2022

WARWICK – A new federally funded associate degree program at the Community College of Rhode Island has been created to help prepare students for...

ELIZABETH M. TANNER, who has been the R.I. Department of Business Regulation's director since 2017, has been appointed as the state's new commerce secretary. /PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

DBR Director Tanner named new R.I. commerce secretary

Economic Activity 06/27/2022

PROVIDENCE – The director of the R.I. Department of Business Regulation will shift over to R.I. Commerce Corp. to serve as the state’s new...

STEFAN PRYOR will resign as R.I. Commerce Corp. secretary on June 21. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Pryor to resign from R.I. Commerce on June 21

Economic Activity 06/17/2022

PROVIDENCE – Stefan Pryor’s time as the state’s commerce secretary is nearing completion. Pryor, who has served as Rhode Island’s first secretary for R.I. Commerce...

R.I. April jobless rate 3rd-lowest in New England

Economic Activity 05/20/2022

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island had the third-lowest unemployment rate in New England in April at 3.2%, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau...

THE NEWPORT DAILY NEWS will cease printing its Wednesday hard copy print edition starting the week of April 25. That's day's paper will switch to online only. / COURTESY THE NEWPORT DAILY NEWS

Newport Daily News to cease print edition on Wednesdays

Business Services 04/05/2022

MIDDLETOWN – The Newport Daily News, one of multiple Gannett Co.-owned local newspapers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, will be eliminating its Wednesday physical...

Collette pledging $200K to support Ukrainian humanitarian efforts

Economic Activity 03/07/2022

PAWTUCKET – Being in the travel industry, Collette Travel Services Inc. has had a close eye on the unfolding crisis going on in Ukraine...

GINA M. RAIMONDO, U.S. Commerce secretary and former Rhode Island governor, will deliver the 101st Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture on International Affairs at Brown University on March 15. /AP FILE PHOTO/ALEX BRANDON

Raimondo to deliver Ogden lecture at Brown University March 15

Economic Activity 02/28/2022

PROVIDENCE – Former Rhode Island governor and current U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo will return to the Ocean State March 15 at 5...

HILARY FAGAN has been named the new president of R.I. Commerce Corp. / COURTESY R.I. COMMERCE CORP.

R.I. Commerce Corp. taps Fagan as new president

Economic Activity 02/21/2022

PROVIDENCE – Hilary Fagan will become R.I. Commerce Corp.’s new president next month, replacing Jesse Saglio. The quasi-public agency announced late Monday that Fagan, R.I....

MARK S. MURPHY, director of the John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University, told Providence Business News that he will be leaving the center after Monday. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Murphy leaving role as Chafee Center director

Economic Activity 01/31/2022

SMITHFIELD – Mark S. Murphy, the director of the John H. Chafee Center for International Business at Bryant University, told Providence Business News that...