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WARWICK – Forty young business professionals were honored Thursday for their efforts in the workplace and community at Providence Business News’ 22nd annual 40 Under Forty Awards program. The sold-out event, which celebrated the best local young businessmen and businesswomen in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, hosted over 350 people at the Aldrich Mansion. The […]

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island returned control of the public school district to the city on July 1, ending nearly seven years of state oversight with a report that casts the intervention as a turnaround success. However, a closer read shows the state fell short of nearly every academic goal it set when it seized control […]

PROVIDENCE – Thirty-two local companies and organizations are among both the highest earners and the most innovative as part of Providence Business News’ 2026 Fastest Growing & Innovative Companies awards program. The 23 Fastest Growing companies to be recognized this year had the highest percentage growth in revenue of all applicants from 2023 to 2025. […]

THE UNIVERSITY of Rhode Island will serve as WorldStrides’ official School of Record for select international and community engagement programs.

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island has graduated the inaugural class of its Fit2Serve: Pathway to Policing program, an eight-week training initiative designed to prepare Rhode Islanders for careers in law enforcement. Fifteen students completed the program, which was developed through a partnership between CCRI and Fit2Serve and supported by a $125,000 grant […]

EAST PROVIDENCE – The city has completed nearly $477,000 in renovations to its animal shelter, a project, city officials said, will improve conditions for animals, staff and prospective adopters. City officials, community members and state and local leaders recently gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the completion of the upgrades at the East Providence Animal […]

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Black Business Association has announced the honorees for its 2026 Annual Awards Gala, a celebration recognizing leaders and organizations that have contributed to the state’s economic growth, civic engagement and community development. The event is scheduled for Aug. 28 at Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln. The gala, themed “Powering Progress: […]

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Black Business Association has announced the honorees for its 2026 Annual Awards Gala, a celebration recognizing leaders and organizations that have contributed to the state’s economic growth, civic engagement and community development. The event is scheduled for Aug. 28 at Kirkbrae Country Club in Lincoln. The gala, themed “Powering Progress: […]

KINGSTON – A University of Rhode Island neuroscientist has received a $1.5 million research grant to study cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a disease that affects older adults and is commonly found in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The funding was awarded to William Van Nostrand, co-executive director of the University of Rhode Island’s George and Anne Ryan […]

PAWTUCKET – Providence Business News on Thursday celebrated four decades of providing business journalism to Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts at its 40th Anniversary Gala at the Centreville Bank Stadium. PBN, founded by the late Robert C. Bergenheim and his son, Roger C. Bergenheim, published its first print edition on May 5, 1986. Iowa-based company […]