Category Archives: Local News
Hummel Report: Taking a Toll
Critics argued that within a $9 billion annual budget Rhode Island could find $45 million to help fund desperately-need bridge repairs across the state, instead of tolling trucks. But now that the Rho...
May 19, 2016
Rhode Island Senate backs marijuana as PTSD treatment
FILE – Young marijuana plants are shown in this Sept. 15, 2009 file photo (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Senate has passed a bill that would approve the ...
May 19, 2016
Rhode Island House votes to ban sale of shark fins
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban the sale of shark fins in the state. The House voted 63-0 to pass the bill Thursday. The state Senate...
May 19, 2016
Rhode Island House passes wine biscuit bill
In this Tuesday, May 17, 2016 photo Kristen Catanzaro, of North Providence, R.I., displays wine biscuits in the packing room of her baking facility, in Pawtucket, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) P...
May 19, 2016
VP Biden to visit Rhode Works project
Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Molly Riley) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The White House says Vice President Joe Biden is planning to visit Rhode Island on May 27 to talk about investments in transpor...
May 19, 2016
Secretary of State releases Open Government data tool
WPRO News Secretary of State Nellie M. Gorbea launched an online tool Thursday designed to help Rhode Islanders access open government information filed with the Department of State. The Open Governme...
May 19, 2016
Runway extension approved for Warwick’s T.F. Green Airport
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - After almost 15 years of debates, the state board in control of T.F. Green Airport has finally approved the extension of the Warwick airport’s main runway. The Providence Jo...
May 19, 2016
Raimondo to sign bill inspired by marathon bombing survivor
Heather Abbott (photo by Steve Klamkin, WPRO News) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s governor plans to sign into law a bill inspired by a resident injured in the Boston Marathon bombings wh...
May 17, 2016
2 arrested in connection with North Providence shooting of father, son
photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Police have arrested two people in connection with a shooting outside a North Providence convenience store that left a 46-year-old man d...
May 17, 2016
RIPTA closes $2 million funding gap projected last winter
Wikimedia Commons Image. PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island Public Transit Agency says the transit authority has filled the estimated $2 million funding gap officials projected this past winter....
May 17, 2016
