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TROLL ­SIGHTING: ­
Louise Bishop, South County Tourism Council CEO and president, visits one of the two trolls living in the woods of Ninigret Park in Charlestown. Bishop says the trolls, made of recycled materials, have drawn 100,000 visitors this year alone. Three more trolls have been installed recently in Rhode Island. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

The tourism sector sees new faces, but new challenges, too

Rhode Island’s tourism and hospitality sector has seen some new additions since 2021. Those searching for recreation and leisure now have the options of TopGolf,...
GIVING GOALS: David N. Cicilline, who became Rhode Island Foundation CEO and president in 2023, unveiled a five-year strategy for the state’s largest funder of nonprofits in 2024. The new plan identified six community priorities that will guide the foundation’s grantmaking.
PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Federal funding cuts put nonprofits to the test

It took years for Rhode ­Island’s nonprofits to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, but the sector found it had a new...
A DIFFERENT CLASSROOM: Douglas S. Alexander, director of the Institute for Cybersecurity & Emerging Technologies at Rhode Island College, speaks with RIC senior Miled Kalbourji in the institute’s cyber range classroom in 2025. 
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R.I. higher-ed institutions reshaping talent pipelines

Educational institutions have come around to the idea that there is more than one kind of classroom, as students learn both on campus and...
THE AVERAGE weekly price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island decreased 11 cents to $3.96 per gallon, AAA Northeast said Tuesday. / AP FILE PHOTO/NAM Y. HUH

R.I., Mass. gas prices drop amid uncertainty in Iran war

PROVIDENCE – The average weekly price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island decreased 11 cents to $3.96 per gallon, AAA Northeast said Tuesday.     That price is 5 cents...

R.I. judge tosses Trump’s latest attempt to reconfigure federal homelessness programs

A Rhode Island federal judge has again blocked the Trump administration from siphoning federal funds from no-strings-attached housing for formerly homeless individuals. In a pair...
JOYFUL SURVIVAL: Kim T. Clark shows off some of the wares in her Rhody Craft gift shop in Providence, which she started as a pop-up in 2008 to support her children after she was treated for cancer and while going through a divorce. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Pop-up turned gift shop firmly standing on Hope

Perusing the bright and colorful shelves of Rhody Craft LLC, it would be hard to imagine the desperate circumstances that catalyzed the Providence-based gift...

More than 24 states sue Trump administration after it put conditions...

BOSTON (AP) – More than two dozen states, including Rhode Island, on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election...

R.I. federal judge denies Trump’s emergency stay request in asylum application...

A Rhode Island federal judge on Wednesday left intact his ruling from last month blocking the Trump administration’s freeze on processing asylum applications from...

Neronha joins lawsuit challenging attempt to end school-based mental health grants

PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha joined 14 other state attorneys general on Friday in challenging the Trump administration plans to cut school-based...

Homelessness groups sue again in R.I. to block Trump’s latest HUD...

Three days after a Rhode Island federal judge struck down one version of the Trump administration’s homelessness grant rules, a coalition of communities and...
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