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More Rhode Islanders will qualify for winter heating assistance this year under higher income limits that took effect Sunday for a United Way of Rhode Island program. The statewide nonprofit’s Good Neighbor Energy Fund helps households experiencing temporary financial hardship who earn too much to qualify for federal or state assistance.  For the 2026-27 heating […]

On Oct. 14, members of the Charles Place Tenant Union and Curtis Arms Tenant Union delivered a letter signed by over 200 tenants of the two Providence apartment complexes, calling for the buildings’ owners to meet with tenants and negotiate an agreement addressing tenants’ concerns about their living conditions.

A 47-year-old New York man is now charged alongside the driver after detectives searched the...

A 28-year-old driver is accused of leaving the scene of a rollover crash before returning to confront investigating officers.

If you are a BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee member in the Tri-Cities area — Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, spanning Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia — your hospital coverage may look very different starting January 1, 2027. Ballad Health — the regional health system that operates virtually every...

The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) has reached the final planning stage for phase 1 of transforming Napier Sudekum into a new mixed-use development. Under the Napier and Sudekum Transformation plan, the public housing community will be replaced with a mixed-income neighborhood that will feature planned 2,002 units. This includes a one-for-one replacement of the existing 821 subsidized units and the addition of 1,181 workforce and market rate units with community amenities. Th

Voters in seven states decide Tuesday, Nov. 3, on 12 statewide ballot measures that would change how property taxes are figured, capped or collected. The states are Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyoming. Every one is a proposal. Nothing changes on any tax bill unless the measure passes. Where the 12 measures […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Elon Musk says two more data centers will be operating in the Mid-South by the end of the year. In an X post Friday, he said one called Gun Range is on track to be up and running by the end of November, and Spam, housed in the former Hormel facility, by […]

Memphis has lost one of its best-known independent breweries. Crosstown Brewing served its final customers on October 17, and just four days later its operating company filed for Chapter 7…

Michael DeBiase, 46, who pulled a gun on his co-worker for heating up fish in the office microwave was released on probation last month