Category Archives: Local News

Gov. Gina Raimondo meets with participants in the “Prepare RI” program at Central High School in Providence. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By Steve Klamkin WPRO News Rhode Island will c...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The I-195 Redevelopment District Commission has heard a proposal for an estimated $27 million retail-residential complex on the former Interstate 195 land. The Providence Journ...

The Level 1 Showcase at Providence Improv Guild.   By Kimberly Harper I've always been interested in performing arts. I studied theater in college, I review it now, and occasionally I get on stag...

Photo Credit: Daniel Mennerich/Flickr SALEM, Mass. (AP) - Officials in the Massachusetts town best known for its 17th century witch trials are taking a closer look at the planned opening of Satanic Te...

WPRO News and the Associated Press Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut has hired controversial former Providence and New Haven Police Chief Dean Esserman, according to a report from NBCConnec...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Officials in Providence say a municipal car used by Mayor Jorge Elorza’s advance staff was towed late last week for accumulating seven years’ worth of unpaid parkin...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two twin boys are recovering at a Rhode Island hospital after police say their mother threw the toddlers out of a first-floor window at their apartment in Providence. Thirty-se...

Rhode Island House Majority Leader John DeSimone (left) with House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s Democratic House Major...

Rhode Island PBS announced this week that Hummel Report host Jim Hummel will be new moderator to the public affairs program "A Lively Experiment." A Lively Experiment will also introduce a modified fo...

Members of a SWAT team box in a car driven by Benjamin Kimball, 38 during a 5-hour standoff in Rehoboth. Still photo from video courtesy Rehoboth Police By Steve Klamkin WPRO News A North Attleboro ma...