Tag: Government
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...
R.I. DHS to open new regional office inside Shepard Building in...
PROVIDENCE – The landmark former Shepard Co. building will become home to a new appointment-only regional office for the R.I. Department of Human Services...
Ex-N.K. basketball coach Thomas acquitted of child molestation, sexual abuse charges
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Aaron Thomas, the former longtime North Kingstown High School head boys’ basketball coach, on Monday was acquitted of second-degree charges of...
R.I. monthly unemployment climbs to 4.9% in April
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in April was 4.9%, up from 4.8% in March, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training...
8 R.I. affordable housing projects receive $3.5M in community block grants
PROVIDENCE – More than $3.5 million in community development block grants were awarded to various housing projects across Rhode Island in what state officials...
- Featured Event -
