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INTERNS AND RESIDENTS represented by the Committee of Interns and Residents rallied outside Rhode Island Hospital on June 5 as the union attempts to negotiate its first contract with Brown University Health. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER ALLEN

At hospitals, both management and residents feeling financial woes

While lawmakers on Smith Hill were busy putting the final touches on the state’s fiscal 2027 $15.2 billion budget, a first-of-its-kind labor action was...

CRMC approves key SouthCoast Wind permit over objections from fishing industry

The murky future for SouthCoast Wind gained a small but significant sign of clarity Tuesday with a key permit approval from the Rhode Island...
SOON ON 
THE MOVE: 
A pair of elephants lumber around their 2-acre habitat at Roger Williams Park Zoo. All three elephants that live at the zoo will be leaving next year because of increasing health issues as they age.
PBN PHOTO/
MICHAEL SALERNO

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: RWP Zoo left scrambling for money to boost attendance,...

It’s safe to say that nearly all of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo each year make...
Bruce Newbury

URI conference explores regenerative agriculture

With summer getting underway, one of the delights in living here are the fresh options we have on our plate. We may not think much...
Helena Buonanno Foulkes

R.I. can offer so much to believe in

During my 25 years at CVS Health Corp., I watched the same pattern play out over and over: We recruited people to our Woonsocket...

Mixed news on R.I. economy

This month started with a mix of good and bad news on PBN.com when it comes to the state economy. After months of economic data...

Cormier nominated to head R.I. Life Science Hub

PROVIDENCE – Bob Cormier, who has more than 25 years of medical-device and healthcare experience, has been nominated to be the CEO and president of...

Lardaro: R.I.’s economy may be recovering from recession

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island may be in the early stages of recovering from its economic recession, University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro said...
MEETING OF MINDS: Bob Chatman, left, Slater Technology Fund director, discusses the fund’s portfolio with Thorne Sparkman, Slater’s managing director, at the CIC Providence LLC building, the location of several companies that Slater has invested in. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A HIGH-STAKES VENTURE: Slater startup fund has placed bets on 140...

Rhode Island’s old industrial base had already been decimated by the mid-1990s when state leaders scrambled to find ways to reinvent and revive the...
Dakota Watjen

U.S. trade policy fails to make us great again

New England was built on the revolutionary spirit. When the British decided to impose unfair taxes and regulations on the goods that the colonies...
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