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AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW of the Providence Public School District conducted by SchoolWorks will determine whether or not the Providence Public School District will be handed back over to local control. / COURTESY CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL

An independent review of Providence schools is coming. Will state intervention...

Editor's Choice 05/29/2024

PROVIDENCE – After being under state intervention for the last five years, is the Providence Public School District ready to be handed back over...

A PLACE TO STAY: Among many projects, Pawtucket Director of Planning and Redevelopment and Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency Executive Director Bianca Policastro helped bring a year-round homeless shelter to the city.  PBN PHOTO/PAMELA BHATIA

Pawtucket’s Policastro has helped build a city on strong relationships

Business Services 05/24/2024

2024 Business Women Awards INDUSTRY LEADER | GOVERNMENT: Bianca Policastro City of Pawtucket director of planning and redevelopment; Pawtucket Redevelopment Agency executive director PAWTUCKET is an...

SITUATION ROOM: Among her roles with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, Shelley McInnis is involved in developing combat system trainers, which teach submarine crews in environments that replicate as closely as possible what they will find on actual subs.  COURTESY NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER DIVISION NEWPORT

NUWC’s McInnis is on the front lines of innovation, national defense

Business Services 05/24/2024

2024 Business Women Awards INDUSTRY LEADER | TECHNICAL SERVICES: Shelley McInnis Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport mission capability manager, customer advocate and tech program manager...

PROVIDENCE MAYOR Brett P. Smiley announced Wednesday a new city-run home repair program to assist low-income residents to make needed repairs to their properties. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Providence introduces new home repair program for low-income residents

Government 05/08/2024

PROVIDENCE – A new city-run program will help low-income residents who have incurred multiple housing code violations make essential repairs to their homes at...

Strong job growth powers R.I. economy in Q1

Economic Activity 05/07/2024

PROVIDENCE – Job growth helped power the state’s economy in the first quarter of 2024, the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council and the Center...

RHODE ISLAND Beef and Veal and one of its owners, Michael A. Quattrucci, have been fined and placed on federal probation for violating the Federal Meat Inspection Act.

Johnston beef slaughterhouse fined $20K for violating Federal Meat Inspection Act

Food & Agriculture 04/30/2024

PROVIDENCE – Almost a year after admitting in federal court that it defrauded customers and violated the Federal Meat Inspection Act five years ago,...

MICHAEL BRIER, 61, former owner and CEO of Providence-based Recovery Connections Centers of America Inc., is expected to plead guilty to a single health care fraud conspiracy charge, according to a report from WJAR-TV NBC 10. / COURTESY U.S. DISTRICT COURT

Report: Recovery center ex-CEO to plead guilty to federal health fraud...

Government 04/29/2024

PROVIDENCE – The former CEO of a now defunct addiction treatment organization who was arrested along with a former supervisory counselor on federal health...

RHODE ISLAND'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE increased to 4% in March, according to the R.I. Department of Labor and Training. /AP FILE PHOTO / NAM Y. HUH

R.I. unemployment rises again, to 4% in March

Capital Goods 04/18/2024

CRANSTON – March's 4% state unemployment rate marks the sixth consecutive monthly increase. The seasonally adjusted rate is one-tenth of a percentage point higher...

$3.8M in Learn365 grants now available

Education 04/18/2024

PROVIDENCE – Another $3.8 million in state grants to help expand out-of-school learning in communities across Rhode Island is now available for municipalities and...