Tag: R.I. Department of Business Regulation
Exodus Construction fined $250K following multiple complaints, banned from working in...
PROVIDENCE – The owners of Exodus Construction LLC, a Narragansett-based construction company that had its license suspended in December following several consumer complaints, have...
State marijuana growers making more campaign donations in hopes of cutting...
Spencer Blier was expelled from his first college for smoking weed, then spent the next decade as a perpetual University of Rhode Island student,...
Local compassion center fined $10K for late payments to marijuana cultivators
PROVIDENCE – A local marijuana compassion center was fined $10,000 by the state for failing to pay licensed cultivators for their products and services...
Exodus Construction’s license suspended by state amid embezzlement probe against co-owner
PROVIDENCE – The owners of a Narragansett-based home construction company, one of whom was recently arrested by R.I. State Police, are ordered to appear...
R.I. cannabis businesses take in $105M during first year of legal recreational...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island cannabis sales hit a combined $105 million in the first 12 months after the launch of legal recreational sales, according...
DBR’s Dwyer honored by National Association of Insurance Commissioners
CRANSTON – The director of the R.I. Department of Business Regulation was one of three people to receive the Raymond G. Farmer Award for...
R.I.’s dreary business-climate rep proving tough to shake
David Levesque says he’s ready to expand his coffee shop business, but he cringes at the thought of what he’ll have to go through...
Legislative panel wades into ‘emotional issue’ of short-term rentals
State and local officials agree the growth of short-term rentals such as those on Airbnb and VRBO has disrupted Rhode Island’s housing market, but...
Cannabis cultivator agrees to pay state $625K to keep license
WARWICK – A local cannabis cultivator will pay a $625,000 fine to keep its license and settle the state’s claims that it had failed...
R.I. recreational cannabis sales hit $7.1M in September
PROVIDENCE – Recreational cannabis receipts in Rhode Island reached $7.1 million in September, rising for the 10th consecutive month and continuing the upward trend...