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PBN’s most-read stories of 2025
News of Providence's changing cityscape generated the most buzz in 2025, with the top-read articles detailing new developments and commercial projects. The Ocean State...
State’s highest-paid employees include URI coaches, president
PROVIDENCE – Workers at a college, hospital and a prison are among Rhode Island's highest-paid state employees.
They include a pair of University of Rhode...
Minimum wage hike, short-term rental tax among new laws going into...
PROVIDENCE – Another minimum wage hike and several requirements for Rhode Island employers are among a host of new laws that will take effect...
Human trafficking training mandatory for R.I. hospitality sector starting Jan. 1
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is rolling out new compliance requirements for the hospitality sector that will require annual human‑trafficking awareness training for hotel staff...
R.I. gets $1.7M from FHLBank Boston for affordable housing efforts
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive a total of $1.7 million for affordable housing from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston that will...
Report: Average R.I. monthly utility costs are highest in New England
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has the most expensive monthly utility costs in New England with residents paying an average of $579 a month, according...
Trump administration pauses Revolution Wind, 4 other projects off the East...
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration said Monday it is pausing leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast,...
Motive still unknown after suspect in the Brown attack and MIT...
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man...
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