Providence Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration says airplane departures can resume after the agency lifted a nationwide ground stop caused by communications problems. The FAA had grounded all flights nationwide Friday afternoon, causing hundreds of flights to be diverted. Officials cited “extraordinary circumstances” caused by communications problems at regional air traff...

PROVIDENCE – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha is imploring the Rhode Island Department of Health to deny the sale of three in-state nursing facilities to Advinia Care, a New Jersey-based operator of senior care facilities and services throughout New England. Neronha first objected to the sale on Nov. 2, and his most recent denouncement comes after the state’s Health […]

WARWICK – Architectural lighting manufacturer Lumetta Inc. filed for state receivership last month. Receivership is when a business deemed financially insolvent is placed into the custodial responsibility of a neutral third party, usually court appointed. The Warwick-based company, which currently has about 50 employees per Providence Business News research, began proceedings Oc...

PROVIDENCE – Lilac Biosciences Inc., a biotech spinout from Brown University, has named a former Moderna Inc. scientist as its new CEO.  Adriana Coll De Peña assumed her leading role at Lilac on Sept. 15 and has been tasked with advancing the company past its inaugural product to develop a portfolio of RNA tools used in research and […]

WESTERLY – A family compound 0.2 miles away from Taylor Swift’s mansion has sold for $11.1 million. That’s the highest-single family sale in the coastal Watch Hill area since 2025, according to Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty, which represented the sellers in this transaction.  The two-parcel estate on 2.4 acres at 6-8 Chapel Place […]