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Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza, surrounded by City Council Members, community leaders, and public officials, announces his plan to address a myriad of issues facing downtown Providence. Photo by Anita ...

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‘Weird Al Yankovic performs at The Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall’s Island Park in New York. (Photo by Robert Altman/Invision/AP) by Patrick Austin, 630WPRO.com What good can com...

Screen capture via NBC 10 EXETER, R.I. (AP) - The owner of a Rhode Island farm has filed a lawsuit against his neighbors alleging that the couple dumped a large pile of manure near his property hours ...

For eight years the owners of 18 prime acres in Hopkinton and a national company have teamed up trying to build a multi-million dollar travel stop at Exit 1 just off Route 95. Proponents figured with ...

The Rhode Island State House. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The former executive director of the Rhode Island Board of Elections is suing the board, alleging it violated his...

photo by Doug Kerr via Flickr Creative Commons BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) - A decadelong project to extend the life of the nearly 90-year-old Mount Hope Bridge is about to get started. The Providence Journal ...

Providence College has a high showing in a new survey released by U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday. PC ranked number 1 in the 2017 "Best Colleges - Regional Universities - North" category. The ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island voters are heading to the polls to select candidates for Congress, the General Assembly and for municipal offices around the state. WPRO will have full coverage of...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Following years of delays, the largest IT project for the state of Rhode Island is set to go live after being launched four years ago by then-Gov. Lincoln Chafee’s admini...