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Providence planners have released a new map showing how the city will grow
Once per decade, the city planners and lawmakers in Providence get a chance to rewrite the plan that guides how neighborhoods are shaped, efforts to control housing costs, and where commercial real...
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Additional teachers to face job insecurity in Providence
Hundreds of teachers across the Providence Public School District have received letters called “displacement notices,” informing them that they will not be guaranteed their current job next year and...
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Washington Bridge westbound must be demolished and undergo years-long rebuild
The state of Rhode Island plans to demolish and completely rebuild the westbound side of the Washington Bridge, a project officials expect to take two years or more. “We will be replacing the bridge,”...
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RIPTA staves off service cuts — for now
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority announced today it will postpone implementing unpopular bus service cuts that had originally been planned for early spring. The agency, which planned the cuts...
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Secretary Buttigieg calls 2-year timeline for bridge repairs “aggressive”
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited the Washington Bridge in Providence on Tuesday, days after the news that the westbound side of the bridge must be demolished and rebuilt due to...
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What Providence’s proposed zoning changes would mean for your neighborhood
The City of Providence’s Planning Department has released a new map showing proposed changes in growth and density in the city under its draft comprehensive plan. According to the city’s Planning...
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Providence mayor announces plans to remove bike lanes amid pushback
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley today announced official plans to remove the bike lanes from South Water Street. Smiley wants to add in an extra lane of vehicular traffic, which he says will help...
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Providence’s City Council, hundreds of residents oppose mayor’s plan to...
More than 100 members of the public poured into Providence City Council chambers Thursday night to oppose Mayor Brett Smiley’s plan to remove bike lanes from South Water Street and replace them with...
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At Angelo’s, traditions old and new mingle to keep the 100-year-old...
Over the weekend, Angelo’s Civita Farnese restaurant on Federal Hill in Providence held its 100th birthday party. During the Friday kick-off for the weekend’s festivities, the restaurant was...
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Highlights from Smiley’s balanced budget
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley unveiled his proposed budget for 2025 on Wednesday evening, proposing a 3% increase from last year’s budget of $598.6 million. Although the budget, which the mayor says...
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Providence city councilor wants to save three historic College Hill homes...
Three historic houses on a busy stretch of Angell Street in Providence were scheduled for demolition on Monday. But City Councilor John Goncalves says contractors didn’t give proper notice to him, or...
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Brown president shouted off microphone as vigil turns to protest
Hundreds of faculty, students and Brown community members attended a vigil Monday evening for a Brown junior who was wounded over the weekend, one of three young men of Palestinian descent who were...
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RIDOT closing I-195 West on the Washington Bridge
The westbound side of the Washington Bridge carrying I-195 between East Providence and Providence is closed, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) said in an “emergency announcement”...
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First day of free ferry service between Bristol and Providence sees low...
Dec. 21 was the opening day of a free ferry between Bristol and Providence. The state started the temporary service to help ease traffic following the closure of the I-195 Bridge connecting the east...
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After 43 years on the job, Providence Patrolman Frank Moody calls it a day
You see a lot of things in 43 years as a patrolman with the Providence Police Department. But one thing that Officer Frank Moody did not expect to find was a tryst between two members of rival gangs...
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Arraignment dates postponed for 41 Brown student protestors
The students have been asking the school to divest from funds that are invested in what they call Israeli oppression of Palestinians. A group of 41 students from Brown University who were set to come...
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Rudolf Haffenreffer collected dozens of human remains. Now Brown University...
The Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University expects to transfer its full collection from Bristol to Providence in the fall of 2025. But before it does, it wants to return the roughly 86 human remains...
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Officials assessing Washington Bridge to determine if full rebuild is necessary
More than a month after the westbound side of the Washington Bridge was abruptly closed to traffic, officials were still determining if the bridge could be repaired or must be completely rebuilt,...
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Lessons from Rhode Island’s free ferry experiment
The Bristol-to-Providence free ferry was a short-lived experiment that started on Dec. 21 as an emergency response to the Washington Bridge closure. But it was dropped on Jan. 19 because of low...
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Providence superintendent remains optimistic about student performance,...
TRANSCRIPT: Luis Hernandez: Superintendent Montañez, it’s such a pleasure to speak with you again. How are you doing? Javier Montañez: Fabulous. Thank you for having me on your show today. Thank...
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19 Brown students are on a hunger strike for divestment
Nineteen students at Brown University say they’ve begun a hunger strike, in the hopes that the board that oversees the school will agree to bring the issue of divestment to a vote. The news comes amid...
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Brown Board won’t vote on divestment amid student hunger strike
Nineteen students at Brown University were joined by dozens of supporters at a rally on the school’s main campus green on Monday, during their fourth day of a hunger strike meant to put pressure on...
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Brown University students end hunger strike after confronting school board...
eventeen Brown University students in the eighth day of a hunger strike broke their fast on Friday after coming face-to-face with the board members who have been the targets of their protest campaign....
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Student protestors from Brown University plead not guilty to trespassing charges
The arraignment courtroom at the Garrahy Judicial Complex in downtown Providence was filled with Brown University undergraduate students wearing keffiyehs on Feb. 12. The students were there to face...
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Brown RISD Hillel leaders say they received anonymous threats
An anonymous source sent violent threats to Brown-RISD Hillel leaders on Sunday morning via email, according to the organization’s executive director, Rabbi Josh Bolton. According to a campus police...
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ABC6 workers announce union campaign
Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts workers at local news station ABC6 are launching union organizing efforts, according to two employees with the unit’s organizing committee. The workers, who...
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Here’s what bus riders think of RIPTA’s proposed service cuts
Eighteen-year-old Angela Sarmiento is a regular on RIPTA bus 18. She uses it to get from her home in Cranston to school, or to her job at a retirement home on the East Side of Providence. She says...
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RIDOT will add two new lanes over the Washington Bridge
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced on Wednesday plans to introduce a new traffic pattern to improve travel times over the Washington Bridge in Providence. State transportation...
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RIPTA boss hopeful driver raises will prevent service cuts
The board governing RIPTA voted Thursday to increase driver salaries 16.6% from a starting pay of $21.71 per hour to $25.33. The pay raise is intended to address a driver shortage at the agency....
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Pro-Palestinian encampments at Brown University grow
As of 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, no arrests at the encampments had been made, although Brown University had promised it would take disciplinary action against students who break school policy while...
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Pro-Palestinian activism ramps up at Brown University campus
At Brown University, a pro-Palestinian encampment is growing, as the campus community puts pressure on the university’s president to take action on divestment, and to ask for charges to be dropped...
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Brown University issues warning to student protesters
Brown University has set a deadline for Monday at 5 pm for about 180 students identified during ID checks at a Pro-Palestinian encampment on campus to either accept responsibility for their alleged...
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Brown University says it will consider divestment proposal if students end...
Student protesters are negotiating with Brown University administrators over terms that could end a pro-Palestinian encampment at the school’s Providence campus and meet some of the activists’...
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Student protesters, administrators at Brown University reach deal to clear...
Brown University has reached a deal with the group that launched a pro-Palestinian encampment last week, Brown Divest Coalition. In exchange for students clearing the encampment by 5 p.m. Tuesday and...
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Brown University professors accuse administrators of ‘intimidation, threats,...
Some professors at Brown University are accusing the school’s administration of surveilling and harassing faculty members who attended a pro-Palestinian encampment at the school’s Providence campus....
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Brown University students on how the pro-Palestine encampment came to a...
Luis Hernandez: Brown University proved to be an outlier at university campuses this past week as police elsewhere broke up encampments and arrested protesters. Pro-Palestinian activists at Brown...
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23 RISD students are occupying the Prov-Wash building
A group of 23 pro-Palestinian Rhode Island School of Design students and one University of Rhode Island student have sequestered themselves in RISD’s Prov-Wash building, where they spent Monday night....
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RISD sit-in ends
Yesterday, after RISD President Crystal Williams told students their barricades were a fire hazard and sent in facilities managers and Department of Public Safety security officers to break them down,...
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Judge issues not guilty filing for 41 Brown University student protesters
A Providence judge has issued a not guilty filing for 41 Brown University pro-Palestinian protestors who were arrested for trespassing last semester. Judge Nicholas Parrillo said he was going against...
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Outraged by Brown’s threats of faculty discipline, some professors call for...
It’s been more than two weeks since student protesters at Brown University struck a deal with school administrators, packed up their tents, and peacefully ended a pro-Palestinian encampment that had...
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Hisham Awartani joins Brown University students presenting divestment...
On Thursday morning, a group of four undergraduate students and one graduate student wearing business casual attire made their way up the hill to the John D. Rockefeller library at Brown University....
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No contractors have submitted bids to rebuild the Washington Bridge
After coming up empty-handed, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation chalks up the lack of bids to the ambitious August 2026 timeline for the project to rebuild the bridge. The initial request...
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Brown reaches agreement to resolve complaint alleging antisemitism
Brown University reached an agreement with federal education officials to resolve a complaint over alleged antisemitism on campus, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights said on...
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With no bids to rebuild, RI officials decline to define timeline for opening...
State officials declined on Tuesday to project when a new westbound Washington Bridge would open. Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee’s administration plans to issue a request for information to determine why...
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Cranston Republican mayoral candidates trade accusations of corruption during...
The two candidates vying for the Republican nomination in the Sept. 10 mayoral primary traded allegations of corruption and debated the finer points of education, homelessness, and the fate of...
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State to keep control of Providence schools for up to three more years
On Thursday night the Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education approved a plan from the state commissioner of education to keep the Providence Public School District under state...
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New referendum asks Brown University undergrads if they lack confidence in...
Brown University’s Undergraduate Council of Students sent out a referendum on Oct. 16 asking students to vote on whether they have faith in the university’s leadership, and whether they believe...
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Jewish students at Brown face possible discipline for sleeping in a religious...
At Brown University, administrators are determining whether to discipline 17 Jewish students who were found sleeping in a temporary structure as a part of a Jewish holiday on campus early on Tuesday...
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For advocates, homelessness is the key issue in Woonsocket election
On most Saturdays in Woonsocket, the Milagros Project runs a free store aimed at assisting people experiencing poverty and homelessness in the city. Volunteers hand out everything from clothing to...
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Referendum shows most undergraduate respondents oppose Brown University...
According to a referendum distributed by Brown’s Undergraduate Council of Students, 73% of undergraduate respondents are unhappy with Brown University’s corporate leadership and would like at least...
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