Providence Business News

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...

12/11/2025

Two years later, life goes on for Rhode Islanders as they wait for Washington Bridge rebuild -

Mitchell Check Jr. had just gotten off the phone after ordering a new shipment of white carnations for his family’s Taunton Avenue flower shop in East Providence Wednesday morning when he was asked how business has been going. “Things haven’t been horrible, but they haven’t been better,” s...

12/11/2025

Smiley signs lease agreement with WaterFire -

PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley on Wednesday signed a 20-year agreement between the city and WaterFire Providence that allows the nonprofit to stay in its 37,000-square-foot headquarters at 475 Valley St. for $1 per year. In a ceremony held at the WaterFire Arts Center attended by Providence Ci...

12/10/2025

Pryor: Targeted investments can help companies ‘expand and land’ in R.I. -

R.I. Secretary of Commerce Stefan Pryor has once again taken a prominent role in the state’s economic development. The first to hold the commerce secretary title, Pryor stepped down in 2022 to make an unsuccessful bid for state treasurer. He later returned to Smith Hill for an 18-month stint as R....

12/10/2025

‘Sea Farm’ in Portsmouth sells for $4.5M, highest of year for town -

PORTSMOUTH – An eight-acre estate called “Sea Farm” recently sold for $4.5 million, making it the highest real estate sale in the town so far this year, according to Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty, which represented the buyers in this transaction. The property at 230 Briarwood L...

12/09/2025

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12/09/2025

Collapse of wind deal clouds R.I.’s climate goals -

Rhode Island’s clean energy plans are at a crossroads after Rhode Island Energy, the state’s dominant utility company, walked away from negotiations to purchase power from the SouthCoast Wind offshore wind farm last month. The state has pledged to decarbonize electricity by 2033 and reach net-ze...

12/08/2025

Would 50-year mortgages ease affordability crisis? -

The Trump administration has floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage as a way to make homes more affordable at a time of skyrocketing prices, but it has sparked a debate over whether it will solve the affordability crisis or possibly exacerbate it. Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance....