Category Archives: Politics

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Advocates on both sides of the issue turned out in droves for a discussion of several gun bills in the Rhode Island legislature. Hours before House and Senate hearings on Tuesd...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Two candidates for Rhode Island governor are slinging insults at each other. Independent candidate Joe Trillo, a former Republican lawmaker, tells WPRO’s Gene Valice...

Screenshot via CNN By JILL COLVIN and TOM LoBIANCO WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Trump campaign aide promised to defy a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller and unloaded on President Donald Trump...

Former Rep. Peter Palumbo leaves court in Providence after his initial appearance following his 2017 arrest on corruption charges. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News By WPRO News and The Associated Pres...

photo by Joe King via Flickr Creative Commons PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The former CEO of jewelry maker Alex and Ani has filed papers to run for Rhode Island governor as a Republican. Giovanni Feroce en...

Six years ago the Rhode Island Department of Transportation used millions in federal money to buy a mammoth former printing plant in Warwick for a new materials testing lab. But DOT Director Peter Alv...

AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) By CATHERINE LUCEY and MATTHEW DALY, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a higher minimum age for buying certain firearms and tight...

Providence—-Feb.19, 2018— State Sen. Nicholas Kettle, appears in Superior Court on Monday and was charged with two counts of extorting sex from a former State House page. [The Providence J...

Sen. Nicholas Kettle leaves court after being charged with extortion. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News WPRO News Legislation to expel Sen. Nicholas D. Kettle has been filed in the Rhode Island Senate ...