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Dry weather with pleasant temperatures Sunday. A cold front will cross the region Monday afternoon and night with a round of showers and thunderstorms. Dry weather follows Tuesday, but another cold front may bring a few showers and thunderstorms late Wednesday into Wednesday evening, but a washout is not expected, according to the National Weather Service. The progress of Dorian in the region will be monitored late this week.

LINCOLN — William M. Davies Jr. Career & Technical High School now boasts a new center for advanced manufacturing that state leaders say will better prepare students for careers in the field.State and industry leaders cut the ribbon at the space Friday and gave tours of the center as well as a newly renovated bio-manufacturing technology lab.The projects were paid for with about $3.65 million from the  Rhode Island Capital Plan Fund. Some of that money also went [...]

CAPE COD, Mass. — Between great white sharks, freak tornadoes and new taxes on vacation rentals, Cape Cod businesses have had a challenging summer. Lodging and beach visit numbers are down on the famous vacation destination, one year after the region dealt with two shark attacks, including the state's first fatal attack in more than 80 years. Beaches have [...]

McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and other shelters.Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands at 12:40 p.m., and then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island at 2 p.m., after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to [...]

Knowing that many of the thousands of students who moved in over the weekend will be living away from home for the first time, university President David M. Dooley said it is important to have this moment for their needs.

BLOCK ISLAND — Offshore rescuers are sharpening their skills at and near the Block Island Wind Farm, in what are early preparations for the Atlantic Coast’s nascent offshore wind industry.But a Rhode Island commercial fishing group has said practicing on five turbines, all in a row, can’t be considered a real test for what is expected to be hundreds of wind turbines in grid patterns offshore south of Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the coming decade. [...]

Whether organized labor in the United States is sounding a terminal death rattle or showing signs of a resurgence depends on one’s perspective.On the one hand, union membership continues to suffer a long-term decline, especially in the private sector — it’s down to less than 11% overall from its peak of nearly 35% in the late 1950s.On the other, organized labor has notched some notable victories in recent years, including the fight for $15, which prompted [...]

NEW BEDFORD — A third bidder has thrown its hat into the ring for a chance to build Massachusetts’ second commercial offshore wind farm.Mayflower Wind Energy, a joint venture of Shell and EDP Renewables, submitted a bid by the deadline, the company announced Friday.At least two other companies, Bay State Wind and Vineyard Wind, have announced they are bidding. Vineyard Wind won the first contract last year, but the project is stalled in federal permitting. [...]

McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas as a catastrophic Category 5 storm Sunday, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs, overturning cars and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered down in schools, churches and shelters.Dorian slammed into Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands at 12:40 p.m., and then made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island at 2 p.m., after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying [...]

What did the Raimondo team release on the last day of the maximum six weeks that state law allows for a response? Not a lot, beyond calendar entries and attendance confirmation emails.