Category Archives: Local News

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) - Gov. Gina Raimondo says she’s concerned about legislation that would create a new roadblock for a proposed gas-fired power plant in rural Rhode Island. The Democrat told ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Providence man has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he sold heroin and fentanyl to undercover agents on multiple occasions while awaiting trial on drug charges in Massa...

Fewer than 15 percent of adults in the United States still smoke. But the pressure among young people to take up the habit remains strong – which is why the CVS Health Foundation has teamed up w...

by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News A University of Rhode Island employee, identified as 34 year old Christian Lepore of Richmond, is responsible for allegedly beating a West Greenwich man to death over Memor...

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, left, laughs with R.I. House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, right, moments before Raimondo signed the state budget into law during ceremonies at the Statehouse, Tuesday, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The corporation that runs Providence’s deep-water port is working with state lawmakers to get a $20 million bond initiative on the November ballot to finance the portR...

A boy brings flowers to put beside a statue of a gorilla outside the shuttered Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Monday, May 30, 2016, in Cincinnati. A gorilla named ...

Originally written by Bill Comeau and Rob Carlson in 1981, Rhode Island retailer Benny's has reprised the one-time state song featuring Steve Smith and the Nakeds. A few famous Rhode Islanders pop up ...

As Rhode Island navigates its way toward the implementation of a tolling plan for trucks using the state's highways, D.O.T. officials here could borrow a page from their neighbors to the north: The Ne...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two Boston men are facing federal charges of trafficking a minor for prostitution in Rhode Island, after another man told police that one of them was trying to extort him for h...