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House Minority Leader Brian Newberry House Minority Leader Brian C. Newberry has called for a House Oversight investigation into RIDOT and its tactics with respect to passage of the recent tolling leg...

photo via Cranston Police Dept ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) - Police have arrested a stripper in connection with a bank robbery in Rhode Island as she was lying in a Massachusetts motel room bed with cash po...

  Users and caregivers join Steven Brown of the ACLU (at left) to criticize Gov. Gina Raimondo’s proposed tax on medical marijuana. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News   WPRO News and The...

Photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island House of Representatives has approved a plan to charge big-rig trucks to travel through ...

House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello presides over the truck toll debate on February 10.   MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island House of Representatives has b...

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza delivers the State of the City address. Phot by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News   PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza says Rhode Island’s capital ci...

Larry Luccino (left) and Dr Charles Steinberg address the media on November 9. (Photo by Andrew Augustus) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - PawSox Chairman Larry Lucchino says the team is considering improvemen...

Former Providence Mayor and close friend Joseph Paolino offers the eulogy for WPRO host and fellow former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence said goodbye on Monday to former Mayor Buddy Cianci, the wisecracking king of one-liners who led the city during a turbulent and troubled six terms. Dozens of people...

WPRO’s Gene Valicenti interviewed Job Lot CEO Marc Pearlman, Governor Gina Raimondo, and Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello Monday morning regarding the RhodeWorks truck toll legislation. P...