Tag: Government
URI, RIDEM partner to reopen Alton Jones Campus
WEST GREENWICH – Five years after it was shut down to the public due to financial issues and such problems being exacerbated by the...
UMass Dartmouth suffers data breach, reportedly impacting 75K people
PROVIDENCE – A data breach earlier this year at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has reportedly impacted more than 75,000 people and led to...
R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp.
Best Places to Work 2025 Awards
#10 LARGE COMPANIES: R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp.
Local Employees: 234
CEO and Executive Director: Carol Ventura
Questions answered by: Whitley...
DLT: Weekly unemployment insurance, temporary disability insurance payments rising again
CRANSTON – State unemployment and temporary disability insurance payments will once again increase starting early next month, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training...
Hiring in the U.S. slows, yet employers added a solid 139K
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. employers slowed hiring last month, but still added a solid 139,000 jobs amid uncertainty over President Donald Trump's trade wars.
Hiring fell...
N.P. man sentenced to 6 years in prison for setting fire...
NORTH PROVIDENCE – A local man who in February pleaded guilty to setting fire to a historically Black church in the town has been...
Providence schools tentatively reach new 3-year contract with teachers union
PROVIDENCE – A new three-year tentative collective bargaining agreement has been reached between the Providence Teachers Union and the city’s public school district, school...
ACLU suing Brown University’s police over denied APRA requests from journalists
PROVIDENCE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island Inc. is suing Brown University’s police department for allegedly violating the state’s Access to...
Officials break ground on Broad Street Homes project in Central Falls
CENTRAL FALLS – Local elected officials and affordable-housing development leaders on Friday formally broke ground on One Neighborhood Builders’ $26 million Broad Street Homes...
Saving lives is Schultz’s personal fight
Business Women Awards 2025
WOMAN TO WATCH GOVERNMENT/QUASI-GOVERNMENT:
Cathy Schultz, R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services Governor’s Overdose Task Force director
SAVING AND...


















