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Wagner stepping down as leader of Care New England
PROVIDENCE – Four years after assuming his role as CEO and president of Care New England Health System, Dr. Michael Wagner is stepping down.
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Brown University launches Workforce Lab to track job training programs
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs launched a new Workforce Development Policy Lab on Thursday to identify which job...
Blue Cross, Hasbro named to 2026 Civic 50 list
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Hasbro Inc. have again been recognized as two of the 50 most community-minded companies in...
Shekarchi’s bid to dismiss ethics complaint denied
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Ethics Commission is moving forward with a complaint challenging former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi’s bid for a seat on the...
Pawtucket secures $30M for Tidewater infrastructure buildout
PAWTUCKET – City officials on Monday announced a $30 million infrastructure investment aimed at unlocking Phase 1B of the Tidewater Landing redevelopment, including a...
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan dies at 100
WASHINGTON (AP) – Alan Greenspan, the jazz-playing U.S. Federal Reserve chair who was celebrated for engineering a decade of prosperity but later shared...
R.I.’s single-family home price falls for first time since 2017, to...
WARWICK – The median sale price of single-family homes in Rhode Island dropped for the first time in nine years, to $500,000 in May,...
Federal Reserve keeps rates steady, officials divided on hikes this year
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet almost half the central bank’s policymakers said they could support a...
REGENT completes world’s first seaglider manufacturing facility in N.K.
NORTH KINGSTOWN – REGENT Craft Inc. has completed the world’s first seaglider manufacturing facility in Quonset Business Park, the company announced Tuesday at the...
America250-Enduring Success: Crossroads Rhode Island
(Editor’s note: This is the 13th installment in a weekly series featuring Rhode Island’s oldest companies as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of...


















