Providence RI

The National Weather Service is forecasting another snowstorm this weekend for Rhode Island. The City Providence has struggled to clean up this past weekend’s storm. The forecast calls for a 60% chance of snow on Sunday, but the NWS has not yet issued an accumulation forecast. And between today and the storm,...

BURRILLVILLE – A Pascoag man who reportedly became agitated with the driver of a sports car for following his vehicle too closely was arrested this month after a road rage incident that ended when he waved a BB gun at the offender. Glenn Harrison, 53, of Camp Dixie Road...

An analysis by the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council (RIPEC) of Governor Dan McKee’s FY 2027 budget gives the proposal credit for slowing the pace of spending but criticizes McKee’s new tax hike on the state’s top earners. RIPEC states, “If enacted, the governor’s proposed millionaire’s tax...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — Officers said they responded to Tabor Drive for a report of domestic assault with a knife. Police found a 32-year-old woman who was transported for non life-threatening injuries. Officers said the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Jimmy Estrada, barricaded himself inside a bathroom before...

WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — The Warwick Fire Department said it responded to a fire at a marina warehouse on Masthead Drive Thursday. The department said the original call was for smoke conditions at the warehouse that was discovered to have originated from a fire in a partition. Firefighters had...

Parents have been told to park at St. Anne Church across the street, requiring students to walk along and cross Mineral Spring Avenue, a busy main road.

A crossing guard at Carl Lauro Elementary School said she had to lift students over snow banks to help them get to school safely.

New Englanders were expecting to shovel their driveways after last weekend’s massive winter storm crawled across the region over a span of two days, though no one was likely expecting to find anything actually crawling out from under the nearly two feet of snow that fell. But that’s just what happened to one man in...

The Boston 25 Weather team has the latest snow map for a developing nor’easter that could bring more snow, strong wind gusts, and coastal flooding.

A protest — ICE Out! National Day of Action — is scheduled for Friday at 2 PM at the Rhode Island State House. According to the announcement, “Students across Rhode Island are organizing walkouts to join the protest at the State House, including high school students from across the Providence Public Schools as well...