Providence RI

This week’s Cardi’s Furniture & Mattresses Hometown Sports Hero is Nick Andruchow.

(WJAR) — Nurses at Fatima Hospital in North Providence plan to hold an informational picket on Tuesday. The union says Centurion and CharterCARE are closing their home health agency, despite a promise to invest in those services. CharterCARE says the union has it all wrong, saying to us in...

A new private contractor already well known in Rhode Island is on track to temporarily take over Woonsocket’s sewage treatment plant while city officials look for a long-term solution for the regionally vital but locally unwelcome incinerator. A resolution and accompanying draft contract approved by the Woonsocket City

Meet our beauty queen, Halo! Halo is an XXL Bully breed with an even bigger heart. Found as a stray, this lovable girl is ready to leave shelter life behind and find a family of her own. Sweet, goofy, and full of personality, Halo loves zooming outside, carrying giant branches...

From panoramic ScreenX formats to a new bowling lounge, the Providence Place cinema complex is getting a complete multi-million-dollar makeover.

(WJAR) — Rhode Island will have a new governor. Providence will have a new mayor. Is there anything in voter data from last week’s primary to suggest why incumbents were toppled?. “The people who came out to vote in this cycle were animated,” Rhode Island Secretary of State...

In August, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerohna P’19 P’22 secured at least $49.4 million earmarked for youth mental health programming in Rhode Island in a settlement with Meta, according to a press release from Neronha’s office. The lawsuit accused Meta of exposing youth to harmful content, misleading the publi

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Lizzie Borden story isn’t the crime – it’s why Lizzie chose to keep living in the city that ridiculed her for the rest of her life. After Lizzie’s surprise acquittal in the 1892 hatchet murders of her father and stepmother, Andrew and Abby, she became a figure of gossip in pop

Neighbors near the vacant Aldrich Junior High School get several more months before any rezoning vote, and the city will test the market by bidding the property as is. A 16-unit apartment building on Post Road cleared first passage and still needs a second vote and planning board approval. Two bid awards were held to O

Some shopping lists are better left unwritten, especially when nearly 100 vintage booths are involved. That’s the situation at WaterFire Arts Center October 3 and 4, when Little City Thrifty returns to Providence with two days of vintage clothing, home décor, vinyl, books, jewelry, art, collectibles, ephemera, accessor