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WPRO News and the Associated Press National Grid is asking Rhode Island regulators to approve rate increases to generate electricity. National Grid says that a typical Rhode Island household that uses...

Andrew Augustus, WPRO News There will be a stronger police presence at Stone Hill Elementary School in Cranston after the school received a threatening letter. Chief Operating Officer of Cranston Publ...

Purchased lot marked orange. Image courtesy of the 195 Redevelopment Commission By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com The 195 Redevelopment Commission announced Tuesday the sale of parcel of land to a develop...

  WPRO Newsroom Providence City Council President Michael Solomon will have pay up after he settled with the Ethics Commission for failing to disclose a business partnership for five years. Solom...

WPRO Newsroom Woonsocket-based CVS says it will be setting up a new digital technology development center in neighboring Massachusetts to create new technologies to help consumers. The pharmacy chain ...

Image found on Wikimedia Commons WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island wants to open a slave trade museum and a national center for rec...

By Jim Hummel Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt has admitted to violating the state's ethics code by hiring her son for an unadvertised part-time job this past summer. The admission is contained in ...

File photo: Shayanna Jenkins and Janice Bassil. Pool photo by George Rizer / The Boston Globe By Steve Klamkin WPRO News Cleaning maids for Aaron Hernandez and his fiance, Shayanna Jenkins told a gran...

By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com Governor-elect Gina Raimondo said she wants State Police Colonel Steven O'Donnell to stay on the job in her new administration. In a statement, Raimondo said she wants O&...

Woonsocket's mayor already faces an investigation by the state Ethics Commission for giving her son an unadvertised, unbudgeted city job over the summer. Now Jim Hummel has learned the city hired Mayo...