Category Archives: Politics

(image via rirecycledmetals.com/) PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - State officials want a court-appointed receiver to take over a Providence scrap metal recycling company. Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s District 11 Senate seat has been won by a Republican. John Pagliarini Jr. officially won the Senate District 11 race on Wednesday to replace former Sen. Ch...

Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News by Doug MacGunnigle, WPRO News House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello (D-Cranston) told WPRO’s Gene Valicenti that while...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The Rhode Island General Assembly will reconvene for its first legislative session of the new year. Lawmakers returning to the Statehouse on ...

Protesters rally at the State House calling on Governor Gina Raimondo to keep her campaign promise to give drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants on November 23, 2015. Photo by Doug MacGunnigle b...

BY MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - This year’s biggest order of business in the Rhode Island General Assembly might be resolving the unfinished business left when th...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Higher minimum wages and tighter checks on campaign finances are among new laws going into effect as 2016 begins. Rhode Island’s minimum wage will increase by 60 cents pe...

by MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A failed campaign to build a stadium for the Pawtucket Red Sox in downtown Providence, prison time for a man who was once one of the most...

WPRO News and the Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island lawmaker is proposing a sales tax holiday in August to keep shoppers from flooding into neighboring Massachusetts for a simila...

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (photo by Brookings Institute via Flickr/Creative Commons) KEN THOMAS, Associated Press   WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders...