Category Archives: Local News

photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A stretch of lawn outside the Rhode Island State House could be opened to real estate development as part of a plan being consider...

Photo by Lindsey Lerner PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island state legislators have left their most important decisions of the year for the last two weeks of June. The state House of Representatives i...

Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News   PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The company hired by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation to run the Providence-to-Newport ferry says it will be out of service...

Diana Krall – Photo by Mary McCartney by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO Jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall brought her tour promoting her new album "Turn Up the Quiet" to the Providence Performing Ar...

(AP)Rhode Island’s Teacher of the Year is drawing attention for his display of LGBT pride in a photo-op with President Donald Trump. The photo from Nikos Giannopoulos’ visit to the Oval Of...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former high-ranking Rhode Island lawmaker has been ordered to spend more than four years in prison for stealing private money and misusing public funds. Ray Gallison, a Democ...

Rhode Island Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello (D-Cranston) joined Tara Granahan the morning after the 2018 budget passed out of the Finance Committee. Mattiello discussed the car tax, the Gover...

Former State Rep Ray Gallison (D- Bristol) photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A lawyer for a former high-ranking Rhode Island lawmaker has asked a judge to put him in prison for ...

Governor Gina Raimondo. Photo by Doug MacGunnigle PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Gov. Gina Raimondo is canceling public events as negotiations continue on Rhode Island’sbudget. A revised budget plan is...

  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A state lawmaker who shared with colleagues a screengrab showing web browser tabs that referenced pornographic content took to the House floor to insist: “I am not...