Category Archives: Local News

WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - The longtime principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Rhode Island has retired after a short video of him using racial slurs surfaced. The president of Bishop Hendricken High ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The lawyer for a Republican state senator being investigated by state police says his client has decided not to step down. Sen. Nicholas Kettle's attorney, Paul DiMaio, said on...

photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons Listen to state leaders react to Governor Raimondo’s State of the State address:

COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island State police say they're investigating a state senator from Coventry. Lt. Col. Joseph Philbin tells the Providence Journal there is "an active investigation" into st...

photo by Tessa Roy WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A 17-year-old boy arrested in connection with a shooting at a Rhode Island mall that left one person injured was released to home confinement. A fa...

The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island state Senate is considering a proposal to provide public subsidies to help fund a new stadium fo...

by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO Providence Police have arrested a 17 year old male from Pawtucket in connection with yesterday’s shooting at the Providence Place Mall parking garage. “During the...

photo by Tessa Roy WPRO News WPRO News (Providence) Providence police are investigating a late afternoon shooting at the Providence Place Mall that led to the evacuation of the downtown Mall. Police t...

FILE – Young marijuana plants are shown in this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two of Rhode Island's three medical marijuana dispensaries have l...