Providence RI

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn, III has announced that a 23-year-old New Bedford man will be sentenced after being convicted by a jury last week of First-Degree Murder by Deliberate Premeditation and Firearms Offenses. John Geovanni Pires Monteiro Macedo will be sentenced by the Honorable William White t

(WJAR) — The Rhode Island Department of Transportation advises motorists to seek alternate routes as they begin a series of weekend overnight closures on Interstate 95 starting Friday, Oct. 16. The closures will take place at the Route 10, or Exit 33, interchange in Providence and Cranston. Right now,...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WJAR) — State environmental officials are working with NOAA Fisheries to assess a dead, 5-foot sturgeon found aboard a sailboat moored off the Herreshoff Marine Museum. The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said personnel did not observe any obvious signs of trauma when collecting the f

Warwick, Rhode Island has slipped past the launch window its police chief set in March, and the reason sits at the end of the runway. Col. Michael G. Lima told the Providence Journal that the city’s Drone as First Responder program is waiting on Federal Aviation Administration airspace approvals that could take another

(WJAR) — General Treasurer James Diossa announced Phase 3 for the RI AnchorHome program on Tuesday. The program is aimed at helping first-time homebuyers in Rhode Island. It teams up with financial institutions to make homeownership attainable, according to the Treasurer’s office. The program launched in December 2025.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Rhode Island commuter rail riders should check their train departure times before new MBTA fall and winter schedules take effect Oct. 26. The MBTA and Keolis Commuter Services announced Monday that several trains on the Providence/Stoughton Line will depart earlier or later than they do under

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — Johnston police said a dog was rescued after falling into an open sewer on Monday. According to police, a shih tzu fell around 12 feet into a sewer in the yard of a home on North Fairview Street. The sewer cap had been removed for...

For more than two decades, a wall inside Brown University’s Pizzitola Sports Center carried the names of the people who had been part of the gymnastics program. Created in 2004 by former gymnast Melissa Forziat, the legacy wall became a tradition, with generations of gymnasts, coaches, and staff adding their names. Tha

License plate reader data would be kept no longer than 30 days under the amended ordinance, which still needs second passage. The Cumberland Street shelter lease is final. Woonsocket, R.I. — The Woonsocket City Council on Monday gave first passage to an amended ordinance regulating automated license plate readers, gave

On less than an acre of farmland in Hopkinton, rows of hemp plants were nearing harvest. Most of their “colas” — dense clusters of buds prized for smokable flower — had already been cut ahead of a nor’easter bound for southern New England on the last weekend of September. The rest will be harvested in […]