Category Archives: Politics

photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - With backing from Rhode Island’s governor, state police superintendent and Roman Catholic bishop, a...

(AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - State officials have raised questions about the use of state grants awarded to the Newport County Chamber of Commerce and paid to a lobbying firm. The ...

FILE – In this Wednesday, May 16, 2012, file photo, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, center, is followed by members of the media as he departs the Rhode Island Economic Development ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Legislation long proposed by Rhode Island Republicans to ban the use of public cash assistance on alcohol, lottery tickets and casino gambling is now moving forward under a Dem...

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, ...

photo via flickr/Tom Blackwell by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO A new bill introduced at the General Assembly would require employers to give their employees at least two weeks’ notice of their work sc...

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign rally, Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) JULIE PACE, Associated Press DAVID EGGERT, Associa...

The good government group RI Taxpayers will cease operations on March 10, according to a statement released by the group on Tuesday. “It is with deep regret that we announce that R.I. Taxpayers ...

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, second from left, gestures as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich watch him at the Republican presi...