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A 2,576-SQUARE-FOOT condominium overlooking Silver Lake in the Wakefield section of South Kingstown sold for $1.9 million. / COURTESY MOTT & CHACE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

Condo overlooking Silver Lake sells for South Kingstown-record $1.9M

Economic Activity 07/15/2025

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A 2,576-square-foot condominium overlooking Silver Lake in the Wakefield section of town sold for $1.9 million, making it the highest-ever condo...

Mass. lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales...

Economic Activity 11/29/2024

BOSTON (AP) – A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first...

CVS workers strike at 7 Southern California stores for better pay...

Economy 10/21/2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Workers at seven CVS Health Corp. pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and...

Report: Pharmacy staff at 2 R.I. CVS locations vote to unionize

Health Services 05/24/2024

WOONSOCKET – Pharmacy staff at two CVS Health Corp. locations in the southern part of the state voted to unionize with The Pharmacy Guild,...

CVS pharmacists at 2 R.I. locations seek to unionize

Health Services 04/16/2024

WOONSOCKET – Pharmacists at two CVS locations in the southern part of the state announced Tuesday that they have filed to unionize with The...

Tempur Sealy to buy Mattress Firm in $4B deal

Economic Activity 05/09/2023

WASHINGTON (AP) – Bedding provider Tempur Sealy has agreed to acquire Mattress Firm in a cash-and stock-transaction valued at about $4 billion, the companies...

The Warwick-based Rhode Island Medical Imaging Inc., the largest private radiology practice in the state, acquired a smaller competitor called XRA Medical Imaging. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND IMAGING

Rhode Island Medical Imaging negotiating acquisition of competitor XRA

Health Services 10/20/2021

Warwick-based Rhode Island Medical Imaging Inc., the largest private radiology practice in the Ocean State, is on track to grow even bigger as it...

Ortho Rhode Island Welcomes Dr. Andrew B. Kay as Hip and...

People on the Move 09/14/2021

Andrew B. Kay, MD has joined the Orthopedics team at Ortho Rhode Island. Dr. Kay is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon with a focus on...

THE LARGEST HOSPICE provider in Rhode Island, HopeHealth, announced on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, that it is has merged with the Attleboro-based Community VNA, absorbing the Massachusetts nonprofit as part of an affiliation deal. Community VNA will now be known as HopeHealth Community VNA. This image shows the main office for Community VNA at 10 Emory St. in Attleboro. / COURTESY HOPEHEALTH

HopeHealth absorbs Community VNA in nonprofit merger

Health Services 09/01/2021

PROVIDENCE – The Providence-based HopeHealth, the largest hospice provider in Rhode Island, is absorbing a fellow Massachusetts nonprofit Community VNA, combining their forces to...