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FLOOD ­PROTECTION: Colin Kane, founding partner of Peregrine Group LLC in East Providence, says the Hammetts Hotel in Newport, pictured, had to be built 14 feet above the 100-year flood line. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Structural challenges can make waterfront development difficult endeavor in R.I.

A proposed six-story, 52-room Riverview Hotel in Providence was abandoned after the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council denied a requested variance on a 0.28-acre...

Legislative proposal stirs up shoreline dispute

A special legislative commission recently reached a consensus on a potential solution to a decadeslong conflict over shoreline access in Rhode Island, but a...
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS at Johnson & Wales University, pictured, will have the option to finish their juris doctor degree a year early through a joint program with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Law School. / PBN FILE PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

RIC, JWU to make masks mostly optional on campuses in coming...

PROVIDENCE – Both Rhode Island College and Johnson & Wales University will be making masks optional on their respective campuses, including inside most buildings,...

Lardaro: R.I. economic recovery more rapid and stronger than anticipated

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's economy expanded for the 10th consecutive month in January indicating a more rapid and stronger pandemic recovery than anticipated, but...
THE RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION received a $12 million gift from the Robert G. and Joyce Andrew estate to create a new college scholarship fund in the Andrew's name. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

R.I. Foundation receives $12M gift to support new college scholarship fund

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Foundation has received the largest monetary gift it has ever received specifically for scholarships, which will be put toward...

Study co-authored by URI professor may link faulty brain drainage systems...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Researchers from the University of Rhode Island, working with research teams from the Yale School of Medicine and Stony Brook University,...
DAVID M. COX was let go Friday as the University of Rhode Island's head men's basketball coach. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

Cox out as URI men’s basketball head coach after 4 seasons

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – David M. Cox has been relieved of his duties as head coach of the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team,...
BROWN UNIVERSITY will make masks optional in most indoor settings on campus starting March 14. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown University to make masks indoors mostly optional starting March 14

PROVIDENCE – Less than two weeks after making some modifications to its mask-wearing policy on campus, Brown University has now gone further with that...
PASSIONATE PURSUIT: Kris Bradner, principal at Traverse Landscape Architects in Providence, was inspired by one of her high school teachers to pursue a career in landscape design. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Bradner established roots in her field early

Among the typical college prep courses offered at Kris Bradner’s high school, something different piqued her interest. The private school she attended in Woodbury, Conn.,...
VALUABLE ­EXPERIENCE: Zach Corey, standing, senior at Roger Williams University and associate director of its student-run investment fund, speaks with juniors Lauren Ryan, seated left, and Matthew Leary. / 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

These investment funds put students in charge of the money

Eric Baxter and Lauren Ryan recently spent an all-nighter in the Roger Williams University student investment room, where they anxiously pondered what shares they...
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