Category Archives: Local News

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A plan to establish a national historical park in the Blackstone Valley is going before Congress. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has been pushing ...

WPRO News and the Associated Press WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – Students at Rhode Island’s three public colleges would pay more for tuition and fees under a plan approved by the state Board of Edu...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Health-care providers have told state lawmakers that the medical community is increasingly prepared to deal with Ebola patients. Repres...

Executive Director of the Rhode Island Public Health Institute, Dr. Amy Nunn, speaks about HIV/AIDS in the State Room of the State House as part of World AIDS Day. Photo by Andrew Augustus, WPRO News ...

Activists mark the 59th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white rider in Montgomery, Alabama. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Activist...

WPRO News and the Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) – A divisive plan to build a welcome center at The Breakers mansion in Newport is heading for a final review. The city’s zoning board ...

File: Pool photo by CJ Gunther/EPA By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com Defense attorneys for Aaron Hernandez have filed three separate motions pertaining to the release of police documents, the state prosec...

Amos House President and CEO Eileen Hayes. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News Amos House President and CEO Eileen Hayes. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News A groundbreaking on t...

  WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Providence man is due in district court on charges he shared images and video of child pornography, and a Newport man faces si...

Photo of the suspect courtesy of Dartmouth Police By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com Police in Massachusetts are looking for a suspect who reportedly robbed a South Dartmouth Dunkin Donuts and a New Bedfor...