Category Archives: Politics

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Gov. Gina Raimondo says she hopes to sign a highway truck toll bill as soon as this week if it passes the Rhode Island General Assembly on Thursday. State senators began debati...

Photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island House of Representatives has approved a plan to charge big-rig trucks to travel through ...

House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello presides over the truck toll debate on February 10.   MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island House of Representatives has b...

Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza delivers the State of the City address. Phot by Anita Baffoni, WPRO News   PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza says Rhode Island’s capital ci...

WPRO’s Gene Valicenti interviewed Job Lot CEO Marc Pearlman, Governor Gina Raimondo, and Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello Monday morning regarding the RhodeWorks truck toll legislation. P...

Speaker of the House Nicholas Mattiello PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A bill to toll big-rig trucks traveling Rhode Island highways is moving toward important votes in the state’s General Assembly des...

WPRO News Ocean State Job Lot is suspending construction of a new 500,000 square foot $50 million dollar warehouse expansion at its headquarters in North Kingstown. Company officials tell WPRO’s...

CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - Some city councilors in Cranston want to know more about a senior center van driver who posed as an elderly woman during a press conference. WJAR-TV reports the council debated t...

Former State Rep Tim Williamson (photo by Anita Baffoni, WPRO) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island State Police have released for the first time background investigations into prospective state judge...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - New documents filed by a lawyer for imprisoned former House Speaker Gordon Fox detail how he funneled $158,000 out of his campaign account. Albin Moser filed eight years of Fox...