Deepwater Wind will invest $250 million in Rhode Island and use a local workforce of more than 800 to build a utility-scale offshore wind farm that Read more...
Flex campus will boost Quonset jobs
Quonset Business Park is Rhode Island’s leading engine of job creation and economic development, with 11,800 jobs and more than 200 companies, but Read more...
Four companies plan to bring new jobs, investments to state
Four companies have pledged to bring more than 2,000 permanent jobs and $800 million in private development to Rhode Island.Democratic Gov. Gina Read more...
Local Boy Scouts organization receives national accreditation
The Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America received a gold qualification in the Journey to Excellence Program earlier this year.Gold, Read more...
Explorers program gives young people a taste of police life
The Woonsocket Police Department has introduced a Police Explorers program, a career education program giving young people ages 14 to 20 the Read more...
Quonset railroad owner projects future of rail business in RI on State of Mind Updated: May 18, 2018 08:
Eric Moffet, owner of Seaview Railroad, joined Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss the future of commercial and recreational rail utilization in Rhode Read more...
The State of Solar Power in Rhode Island
Before Robert Stewart and Hannah Morini put a new coat of paint on the clapboards of their 1890 farmhouse in South Kingstown, they installed solar Read more...
A bridge through grief
Katherine Kelley was barely married for two days when her husband died in hospice care, leaving her to grieve for the life that could have been and Read more...
Remembrance tea planned for those coping with Mother’s Day without mom
Losing a parent at any age can be traumatic, the path to recovery uncertain. Hope Hospice is teaming up with Hambly Funeral Home on Red Cross Avenue Read more...
Quonset to provide more jobs with flex industrial campus
Quonset Business Park is Rhode Island’s leading engine of job creation and economic development, with 11,800 jobs and over 200 companies, but we’re Read more...
Living with Alzheimer’s – the story of Tim and Lori Benson
Spending his adult life working as a minister, Tim Benson has always been a man of faith. In 2011, that faith was tested.The Onset resident was Read more...
Quonset Development Corporation recognized for Energy Conservation Leadership
The Quonset Development Corporation (QDC) was recognized by the Rhode Island OER recently at the Leading by Example Energy Awards ceremony at the Read more...
Electric Boat to add 1,300 jobs in RI with new $792M expansion
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) -- Electric Boat plans a $792-million expansion of its facility at Quonset Business Park that will lead to the Read more...
The state needs a stronger affordable-housing law, says R.I. Housing. Executive Director Barbara Fields isn’t waiting for it to be changed.
R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year in a position of financial strength, says Executive Director Read more...
HopeHealth to Celebrate Volunteers at Annual Luncheon
SANDWICH – HopeHealth will hold its annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon on Thursday, April 26 at the Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich to Read more...