East Providence, RI

NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. – Aspen Aerogels Inc. reported a loss of $10.4 million in the third quarter, which included $15.1 million in incident-related costs from the explosion at its plant in East Providence in April.  The company said it has incurred $20.9 million in incident-related costs from the blast over the last nine months.  The explosion […]

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has nominated 25 census tracts in nine communities for a new round of federal Opportunity Zone designations, a program intended to attract private investment to areas through tax incentives for investors. The proposed zones include three census tracts in Central Falls, two in Cranston, one in East Providence, one in Narragansett, […]

To support its ongoing research into the impacts of sleep and circadian rhythms on children and adults, Bradley Hospital in East Providence has received a $10.19 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.  Dispersed through the NIH’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence, the five-year award goes toward Bradley’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, with the […]

PROVIDENCE – The average weekly price of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in Rhode Island decreased 5 cents from a week ago to $4.27 per gallon, AAA Northeast said Tuesday.         That price is 7 cents lower than the national average and $1.28 more than it was in Rhode Island a year ago.         Gasoline prices are easing slightly throughout most of […]

PROVIDENCE – A former Santander Bank employee has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for stealing more than $125,000 from the account of a 78-year-old customer with dementia, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Rhode Island announced Friday.  Carlos Bras, 41, of East Providence, was sentenced to federal prison followed by three years of supervised […]