Category Archives: Local News

Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News BOSTON (AP) - The New Bedford Whaling Museum is offering free admission passes to anyone who gets a coronavirus vaccine at a clinic at the museum. In addition, the fir...

Javier Montanez speaks to reporters after being introduced as Providence’s interim school superintendent June 8, 2021 by RI Education Commissioner Anglica Infante-Green and Gov. Dan McKee. Photo...

As he signed into law a measure barring child marriage under age 18 on June 7, 2021, Gov. Dan McKee hands a pen to Fraidy Reiss, founder and Executive Director of the New Jersey – based Unchaine...

A woman submits to a COVID-19 test. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - With the coronavirus apparently on the run in Rhode Island, the state is sending help to other areas of the...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) - Two people have been arrested in connection with a shooting last month in Pawtucket that left a 20-year-old man dead, police said Monday. Jahcolin Rodrigues, 20, of Providence, ...

Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News JOHNSTON, R.I. (AP) - The same Rhode Island town that had to deal with a runaway steer earlier this year is now investigating reports o...

New Bedford Police. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Authorities say the death of a 4-month-old infant in New Bedford earlier this week is under investigation. A spokesp...

Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island's restaurant industry wants to extend a pandemic state-of-emergency rule that allows eateries to sell alcohol along with takeout o...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Massachusetts man who apologized to bank tellers while robbing two Rhode Island banks has been sentenced to four years in federal prison, according to the U.S. attorney's off...

Massachusetts Statehouse courtesy Sathiya Raj via Wikipedia BOSTON (AP) - Gov. Charlie Baker and Democratic leaders in the Massachusetts House and Senate are in a full-blown spat over $5.3 billion in ...