Category Archives: Local News

WPRO News and the Associated Press Traffic is already backing up and parking bans are in effect as Newport prepares for the arrival of President Barack Obama. The president is scheduled to be in Newpo...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A TV ad for gubernatorial hopeful Angel Taveras suggesting work is underway on the South Street Power Station redevelopment project dep...

Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News By Sam Wroblewski, reporting by Andrew Augustus Mayor Allan Fung has tapped State Police Lieutenant Colonel Michael Winquist to take over as the new Chief of Cransto...

Rendering from Rhode Island Water Park Facebook Page. By Kim Kalunian, WPRO News The former manager of Rocky Point Amusement Park has a new summertime attraction planned for Rhode Island. Rhode Island...

File photo   WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Rhode Island officials say the state has received its first payment from a lawsuit settlement involving ex-Red Sox pi...

Customers of the Narragansett Bay Commission – a third of the entire state of Rhode Island – have seen their sewer bills triple since 2001, largely to fund a half a billion dollar project ...

Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News   WPRO Newsroom The Department of Environmental Management announced an air quality alert has been set for Wednesday as a hot and humid air mass is expected to le...

Photo by CJ Gunther, EPA   WPRO News and the Associated Press FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) – A judge has granted a request by former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez to suppress evidence from t...

File photo   WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The husband of a Rhode Island state lawmaker has been sentenced to four years in prison on federal credit card and so...

Photo by Andrew Augustus WPRO News By Sam Wroblewski, reporting by Andrew Augustus WPRO News Providence Police responded to Hasbro Children's Hospital late Tuesday morning to initial reports that a fi...