Providence RI

As a record-breaking 37.9 inches of snow fell on Providence on Sunday night, staff members from Dining Services slept on army cots in the Sharpe Refectory and Verney-Woolley Dining Hall. As essential workers, Dining Services employees were expected to come into work during and after the blizzard. The current...

A historic blizzard hit the SouthCoast Sunday night to Monday, with snowfall accumulations in many areas surpassing what fell during the infamous Blizzard of ’78. The storm buried the region under more than two feet of snow, accompanied by strong winds, leaving thousands still without power. Outages in Greater Fall...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence, Rhode Island, has reached out to Hartford Mayor Arunan Arulampalum and Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim for help with snow removal. After record breaking snowfall from Blizzard Calvin, Providence is dealing with a long cleanup. To speed up efforts, Mayor Smiley...

Babies don't know when it's a blizzard, which mean that doctors who deliver babies at Women & Infants Hospital sometimes have to be creative about getting to work to be there to greet their newest patients. During the Blizzard of '26, for some doctors that meant hiking through the blizzard from the East Side. Or...

WPRI Meteorologist T.J. Del Santo explains how a historic snowstorm shattered snowfall records across New Bedford and southeastern Massachusetts.

Cleanup efforts are underway after a massive blizzard dumped feet of snow on Rhode Island and Massachusetts, but some communities are struggling to clear the roads as smaller plow and utility trucks keep getting stuck.

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Police have charged a teenager with firing gunshots from a car on Pleasant Street in Cranston last month. Officers were called to the area around 1 a.m. on Jan. 14 and found two 9mm shell casings in the road. Police said they later located a bullet strike at a nearby home […]

Watch as an avalanche rolls down the slopes of Mont Blanc in Courmayeur, Italy, on Tuesday. A long line of skiers waiting for a lift were caught in the powdery cloud unleashed by the avalanche. Ski instructor Jean Claude Chiementin, who shot the video, said the area is “known to release snow frequently” and is...

After a few years of relatively quiet winters, the Blizzard of 2026 just reminded us exactly who is in charge: Mother Nature. Monday wasn’t just a snow day — it was a record-shattering, landscape-altering event. While many in the region were hunkered down listening to the wind howl, history was being made across...

Providence firefighters didn't let the historic blizzard on Monday keep them from helping those in need.