Category Archives: Local News

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The National Weather Service says Rhode Island is in a dry spell, but is not officially in a drought. Ponds, rivers and stre...

File photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Providence Teachers Union has rejected a three-year contract proposal that would have eliminated a job security clause a...

Director of the Rhode Island DEM, Janet, Coit, urges Rhode Island to pass question 7. Photo by Andrew Augustus, WPRO News Andrew Augustus, WPRO News A group of environmental leaders gathered at Rivers...

file photo WPRO News and the Associated Press PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island State Police are investigating an early morning shooting that injured a woman on Interstate 95 in Pawtucket. Tro...

file photo WPRO News and the Associated Press Coast Guard officials say emergency responders have found the body of a 73-year-old woman who was reported missing from a boat near the Bristol shoreline....

File photo   WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A Providence-based clinic that provides free medical care to those without health insurance has received a $75,000 gr...

File photo   WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A range at a National Guard training center is closed while officials investigate how a bullet hit a nearby home. Eas...

File photo   WPRO News and the Associated Press A hearing officer for the secretary of state’s office has found that a consultant for Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios violated lobbying law...

File photo   WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island’s congressional delegation has announced $791,000 in federal funds for a study at Rhode Island Hos...

By Sam Wroblewski, WPRO News New numbers from the Department of Labor and Training shows no improvement in Rhode Island's 7.7% unemployment rate; leaving the Ocean State with the third highest unemplo...