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How an outbreak of violence on a January holiday figures in homicide statistics during the first six months of 2025.
Providence City Council President Rachel Miller is reneging on a deal to allow the Excel Academy charter school to take over ...
The City Council's last minute rejection of a deal to let Excel Academy lease the empty Carl Lauro school left the mayor ...
For the second time in two years, the City Council overwhelmingly rejected a proposed agreement that would have allowed a ...
The city’s four sirens can only be heard in one section of South Providence, and it isn’t clear what to do if you hear one.
Rhode Island’s other two trolls, named Erik Rock and Greta Granit, are both located at Ninigret Park in Charlestown. Those ...
People kept asking why we didn’t just buy the Parkhouse property as open space, but the fact is the township didn’t have the ...
It’s not just clams, quahogs and coffee milk: the Rhode Island capital has an increasingly diverse culinary scene.
Higher Ground International, a nonprofit that provides services to West African immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized ...
The Providence City Council has voted against a plan to lease a shuttered elementary school to a charter school company.
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) worked through the night to fill a large hole that opened up on I-195 ...
On THursday, Mayor Brett Smiley and Providence Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) Director Clara Decerbo announced updates to ...