Category Archives: coronavirus
Group prioritizes ways to spend Rhode Island’s COVID relief money
Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By WPRO NewsThe Rhode Island Foundation brought together a number of community leaders to prioritize ways to spend the $1.1 billion in federal American Rescue Plan Mon...
Oct 19, 2021
Providence wants to spend up to $1.6M on violence prevention
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza is seen in his office in City Hall September 29, 2021. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza wants to spend up to $1.6 mi...
Oct 12, 2021
Johnson & Wales University sues insurer over pandemic losses
Johnson & Wales University downtown Providence campus. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Johnson & Wales University is suing its insurer over financial losses caused by ...
Oct 11, 2021
RI will try to reassign unvaccinated health state workers
RI Gov. Dan McKee encouraged Rhode Islanders to get COVID vaccinations and booster shots in an appearance September 30, 2021 at Pilgrim Senior Center in Warwick. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVI...
Oct 01, 2021
Judge tosses challenge to health care worker vaccine mandate
Governor Dan McKee gets a COVID booster shot September 30, 2021 at the Pilgrim Senior Center in Warwick. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday denied a r...
Sep 30, 2021
State police union sues over governor’s vaccination mandate
Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense BOSTON (AP) - The union that represents about 1,800 Massachusetts State Police troopers went before a judge Wednesday to ask for a delay in the implementation...
Sep 22, 2021
Some health care workers can work beyond Oct. 1
RI Health Director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott briefs reporters on coronavirus developments August 26, 2021 at Green Line Apothecary in Providence. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I...
Sep 22, 2021
Governor to lawmakers: Spend some of $1.1B in rescue funds
RI Governor Dan McKee talks with reporters in a September 21, 2021 news conference in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's governor wants state legislati...
Sep 21, 2021
Rhode Island’s virus transmission rate rises for the week
Data from the RI Department of Health for September 14, 2021 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases per 100,000 population in Rhode Island has gone up in the past week, ...
Sep 14, 2021
Rhode Island Hospital nurses call for pay raises
Rhode Island Hospital. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The union that represents nurses at Rhode Island's only Level 1 trauma hospital is calling on its parent company to incr...
Aug 31, 2021
