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Pawtucket stadium still planning how to cash in on World Cup

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is just months away from bringing a weekslong flood of soccer fans and more than $1 billion in economic...
Bruce Newbury

Cutting out food waste and dining no-shows

There are two ways to think about food. There is food we prepare and there are meals that are prepared for us. Where food is...
Tara Scungio
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Tara Scungio

HEALTH CARE HEROES 2026 AWARDS Mental Health Provider/Advocate: Tara Scungio, URI Health Services psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner What led you to choose health care...
DR. CHRISTOPHER OTTIANO, second from left, interim chief medical officer and medical director at Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, speaks during one of two panel discussions during Providence Business News' Health Care Summit at Marriott Providence on Thursday. Also on the panel are, from left, Joseph Trunzo, associate director of Bryant University's School of Health and Behavioral Sciences; Linda Hurley, CODAC Inc. CEO and president; and Meghan Grady, Meals on Wheels of RI Inc. executive director. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN health care summit: Multifaceted approach needed to repair R.I.’s ailing...

PROVIDENCE – When primary care providers choose to practice in Massachusetts or Connecticut over Rhode Island, it’s not about luxury.  Across the board, the Ocean...

Mullen named women’s basketball coach at URI

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Colleen Mullen, the 2025 America East Coach of the Year who spent two years with the Rams as a player from 1998-2000, has...

URI honors pharmacy dean emeritus with ethics, excellence award

PROVIDENCE – The University of Rhode Island earlier this month recognized Dean Emeritus Paul Larrat with its Norman A. Campbell Award for Excellence and Ethics in Health Care. The award...

McKee’s pick for R.I. Public Utilities Commission baffles policy experts

Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s nominee to the influential R.I. Public Utilities Commission has a resume featuring top roles at Fortune 100 and Fortune 500...
COMMUNITY BUILDER: David Velazquez opened Gather at Valley to create a place where people from different backgrounds could gather for meaningful moments. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Gather at Valley brings flexible event space to Providence

A new event venue on Providence’s Valley Street is bringing people together for celebrations, workshops and community gatherings. Gather at Valley, a 1,500-square-foot rentable space...
NEW HOME: Loren M. Spears is executive director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, which has spent years fundraising and clearing regulatory hurdles to establish a larger, more accessible home for the museum at the University of Rhode Island campus in South Kingstown. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Tomaquag Museum hopes to break ground on new larger facility at...

The 800-square-foot building that houses the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s only Indigenous museum, is a tight squeeze for its 12,000 cultural belongings, well over...
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Five Questions With: Michael Sroczynski

Michael Sroczynski | President, Hospital Association of Rhode Island 1. What do you see as the greatest challenge facing Rhode Island’s health care system?...
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