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R.I. requires insurers cover biomarker testing
Dizziness, memory loss, anxiety and a perpetually swollen left foot and ankle are among the side effects Normand Audette has experienced from taking an...
New R.I. law ensures gratuities get into the right hands
Anyone who has worked in the service industry knows how rapidly things can change from one shift to the next.
One night’s tips might cover...
$6.7M charging station to boost electric buses
Going electric is about to get a little easier for the R.I. Public Transit Authority.
The bus agency is preparing to start construction on a...
Designers try to devise better safe-injection sites
In Providence and Pawtucket, harm-reduction organization Project Weber/RENEW regularly hands out test strips that can detect whether a drug sample contains fentanyl, a highly...
Bryant school will train students for science, business sides of health
BRAD CROUGH doesn’t bat an eye at the prospect of sorting through a dizzying tranche of numbers.
A skilled coder with degrees in accounting and...
URI’s connection to Mass. high-performance computing center powers advanced research
In Gaurav Khanna's world, access to cutting-edge, high-performance computers can open up countless possibilities.
Khanna is a physics professor at the University of Rhode Island,...
Fox Point Hurricane Barrier in need of upgrades, environmental groups warn
PROVIDENCE once led the nation in hurricane protection.
But in the half-century since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier,...
Plans for Microfibres site please some, worry others
FOR THE FIRST TIME since Microfibres Inc. went out of business in 2016, the former fabrics factory at 1 Moshassuck St. in Pawtucket appears...
Hospitality industry tries to counter labor shortage
Michael Costantino struggled to fill two full-time cook positions in May for his restaurant Costantino’s Venda Bar & Ristorante on Providence’s Federal Hill. He...
Teaching the trades that preserve history
The request sounded simple enough: repair a heating and ventilation system stymied by a broken fan. But when The Armory Revival Co. recently fielded...
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