Providence RI

BOSTON – A Fall River man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to drug distribution offenses involving cocaine base, more commonly known as crack cocaine. Antonio Calderon, 44, pleaded guilty to four counts of distribution of 28 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base. U.S. Senior Distr

The civil trial of a security company and officials working at Rhode Island Hospital when a nurse was attacked by a psychiatric patient continued on Wednesday.

Electrolizing Inc. — a chromium-coating facility located in northern Providence — was found to have violated 13 hazardous waste regulations by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. The violations, cited in a Notice of Intent to Enforce sent to the plant’s general manager, include insufficient labelin

The two states landed in the study's top 20 list of friendliest states in America for 2026.

An investigation is underway into a fire that tore through a Providence home Wednesday afternoon.

The Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory is sending fewer firearms cases to outside reviewers while accepting more gun evidence from local police departments thanks to progress rebuilding its in-house testing staff, its director said. Three forensic firearms examiners left the lab after 2024 testing error upended its op

(WJAR) — A motorcyclist was injured following a collision with a vehicle on Route 2 in East Greenwich on Tuesday evening. The East Greenwich Police Department says it responded around 6:42 a.m. to South County Trail (Route 2) at Sleepy Hollow Road. Investigators believe a vehicle was attempting a...

A developer is suing after the city rejected a lucrative tax agreement signed by former Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt.

BLACKSTONE, Mass. — A local ice cream shop is going viral after its co-owner posted a strongly worded message calling on customers to stop yelling at teenage employees. “It was the straw that kind of broke the camel's back,” Coldstuff Ice Cream co-owner David Forgit said. “It's not appropriate, it's not acceptable.”

WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — NBC 10 has learned new details about the man arrested at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport on Friday after police said he brought a gun to work. Nathan Brown was identified in a press release as a “low-level contract employee.” But a business card...