Providence Business News

12/23/2025

Brown University police chief placed on leave pending campus safety review -

Brown University’s head of public safety is now on administrative leave as the Ivy League school undergoes two outside reviews of its security practices and its response to the Dec. 13 mass shooting that killed two students and injured nine others. University President Christina H. Paxson wrote in...

12/23/2025

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12/23/2025

City provides $3.75M spark for WaterFire; is it enough to keep flames going? -

The city of Providence is using a $3.75 million sale-leaseback deal to come to the financial rescue of the popular WaterFire Providence, and supporters say the move was crucial to save a nonprofit that provides a frequent economic boost to downtown. But the leader of WaterFire acknowledges that the....

12/22/2025

Trump administration pauses Revolution Wind, 4 other projects off the East Coast -

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration said Monday it is pausing leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction along the East Coast, including Revolution Wind 15 miles south of Rhode Island’s coast, due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pe...

12/22/2025

Brown attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy finds -

The man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when found, an autopsy determined. Authorities found Claudio Neves Valente dead at a New Hampshire storage facility on Th...

12/22/2025

Restaurant row is all aglow -

‘Tis the week before Christmas And on restaurant row It’s all just so festive The row is aglow! With my little verse inspired by the Outlet Co.’s holiday ad of long ago, the parties for hosting and toasting have begun. Christmas time is here again. Our restaurants, pubs and bars are at the for...

12/22/2025

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12/17/2025

Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack -

PROVIDENCE (AP) – With the search for the Brown University shooter in its fifth day Wednesday, authorities were asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the attack in the hopes it might help investigators identify the suspect, believing he may have cased the s...

12/17/2025

Smithfield superintendent resigns amid fallout from football hazing incident -

SMITHFIELD – The town’s school superintendent has resigned amid a legal investigation of an alleged hazing incident involving the high school football team. Dawn Bartz had been placed on administrative leave in early November. Her resignation was accepted on Dec. 12 immediately after a review re...

12/16/2025

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12/15/2025

Authorities say they will release person of interest detained in Brown University shooting -

PROVIDENCE – A person of interest detained after a Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine will be released after law enforcement authorities determined there was no basis to keep the individual in custody, officials said Sunday night. The disclosure, made at a hastily ...

12/11/2025

Providence Rink at Biltmore Park named 6th-best in nation by USA Today readers -

PROVIDENCE – The outdoor skating rink at Biltmore Park at 2 Kennedy Plaza is the sixth-best skating rink in the nation, according to USA Today’s 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards. This year’s 10-best rinks were nominated by an expert panel and voted by readers as the best in the country for prov...