Providence RI

Vote for Rhode Island’s Centerville Bank Stadium in the SportsTravel awards for Best New or Renovated Venue.

A judge sentenced a 60-year-old man from Millis to 26 months in prison and three years of supervised release for threatening synagogues in Attleboro and Sharon.

For weeks residents of Benefit Street in Providence have known that a Warner Bros. movie was going to be filming in their neighborhood. Ever since the first notices from the studio and a production company called Charlestown Productions started showing up on front doors, the speculations began. Everyone wanted to...

(WJAR) — Rhode Island leaders celebrated the new home for the 143rd Airlift Wing in Quonset on Friday. The leaders gathered at Quonset Air National Guard Base for an official ribbon-cutting. The facility cost $46 million and it is 43,000-square-foot facility. It is considered a state-of-the-art command center that...

The Rhode Island Department of Health recommended closing the swimming areas at two beaches on Friday. Officials said they detected high bacteria counts in the swimming areas at Conimicut Beach in Warwick and Easton's Beach in Newport. The department monitors and reviews beach water quality through Labor Day.

A Fall River boy is facing something someone so young should never face, yet he is doing so with joy and laughter. Soon to be 7-year-old Lucas Pacheco was recently diagnosed with CNL3 Batten’s disease. The disease is a rare, inherited, neurodegenerative disorder that leads to vision loss, and...

PROVIDENCE — Multiple Rhode Island law enforcement units arrested 18 people on various charges including drug trafficking, weapons violations and assault between Aug. 6 and Aug. 14, according to state police. On Aug. 6, members of the Intelligence Unit, Violent Fugitive Task Force, Auto Theft Unit and Uniform Bureau...

PROVIDENCE – The city announced Thursday afternoon, Aug. 14, two sets of road closures for the filming of J.J. Abrams’ movie that will take place Aug. 18 to 25. The first will be Monday, Aug., 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thomas Street, which runs from the intersection of Angell and Benefit Streets down to North Main...

A gang of daring thieves broke into a secret Mafia vault hidden in a Providence fur storage facility on Aug. 14, 1975.

Ever been to Mike’s Kitchen at the Tabor-Franchi VFW Post in Cranston?. Those who are in-the-know rave about the old world menu (their polenta which was famously featured in a cookbook by the owners of Al Forno back in 1991, seafood, the pasta of course, and the stuffed artichokes…recipes are said to be handed down...