Providence News

Usually, legislation is introduced during the General Assembly session and may languish for quite awhile before a committee hearing is scheduled to consider a bill.

Forecast discussion: After a day of mostly cloudy skies, cooler air stayed in Providence, keeping our temperatures cooler than Tuesday's highs.

We're in his office at the Providence Public Safety Complex and he's talking about the department's current recruiting drive - its first since 2010.

TUESDAY, May 21 -- Urban elementary school children with poorly controlled asthma are likely to experience sleep problems and suffer academically, new research indicates.

Kaan P. Kurt, 21, of 93 Circuit Drive, Narragansett, was charged with driving under the influence on May 15 after he reportedly hit a pole on Moonstone Beach Road and became combative with rescue personnel.

I am currently reading No Great Mischief by Alistair Macleod. I love it. His writing pulls me into a different place and time.

A 20-year-old East Providence woman faces drunk-driving charges after her vehicle smashed through a picket fence and struck a tree at a home on Willett Avenue in Riverside early last Friday morning.

HousingWorks RI report issued this week shows half of RI renters spend over 30% of their income on housing - to the detriment of the state economy.

Historic architecture of numerous periods has combined to place Cranston's Edgewood -Shaw Plat neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places.

Eight people were forced to flee their three apartments after a two-alarm fire swept through their three-story building around 7 p.m Tuesday.

Forecast discussion: After an extremely warm and humid morning and early afternoon in Providence, a back door cold front came down from Northern New England.

The U.S. Attorney's office says Christian M. Araujo, also known as Christian Sanchez, was arrested Friday in a Pawtucket parking lot.

UPDATE: Capt. Robert Nelson of the Warwick Police Department announced Tuesday evening that the victim defended himself.

The East Providence City Council meets tonight for its second meeting in May with the introduction of an ordinance for a tax increment financing plan for the Kettle Point housing development on the docket.

The Griswold family is back in high-definition! Yes, another Blu-ray edition of National Lampoon's Vacation is here.

A Riverside man, 28, was arraigned on a drunk-driving charge in District Court last Tuesday morning, May 14, after he was pulled over by Barrington police earlier that morning.

Two health care institutions, a national retailer, and a major community economic development initiative announced their commitment to achieve the vision for reconnecting South Providence to the economic mainstream of the city and state.

Providence's 33rd Mayor from 1984 to 1991, Paolino weighed in on the factors necessary for a Mayoral candidate to be successful in Providence in 2014.

The former pizza place next to the old Butcher Block deli is going to be a pizza place once more.

Born in 1903, the same year the Wright brothers flew, she lived in Providence all her life, except when she was 10 and the family returned to Italy and then moved back to Rhode Island.