Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drone view of snow blanketing Austin during Winter Storm Uri in 2021. (Austin PARD/Courtesy of Austin PARD) One weekend before ...

One weekend before Texas' deadliest winter storm hit on Valentine's Day in 2021, an assisted living facility in Austin began allowing one family member per resident to visit their loved ones. The peak ...

Rayburn Electric Cooperative faced three years of power costs in five days during the 2021 storm. The experience transformed the organization’s approach to risk, generation assets, and long-term ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — The University of Rhode Island (URI) saw an “all-time record” number of 28,036 undergraduate applications for its fall 2025 semester. Dean Libutti, URI’s Associate Vice ...

The University of Rhode Island is gauging interest in a custom license plate to benefit a university fund. At least 600 pre-orders are required by the Rhode Island DMV before production can begin. The ...

Uri Shulevitz arrived at the New York offices of Harper & Row publishers one day in 1962 without an appointment, portfolio in hand. Shulevitz was a recent immigrant, living hand-to-mouth, and looking ...

A Caldecott Medal winner, he turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories. Portrait by Todd WeinsteinCredit... Supported by By Alex Williams Uri Shulevitz, a ...

The University of Rhode Island has been designated an R1 research university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. URI has seen significant growth in research ...

United Rentals Stock (NYSE: URI), the largest equipment renting company in the world offering services to construction and industrial companies, manufacturers, utilities, etc., has seen its stock ...

It was late February, and the young women of the University of Rhode Island softball team were midway through a distressing start to the 2024 season: 15 defeats in their first 16 games. They had just ...