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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation on Friday selected Canadian-based Quarterhill to rebuild the state's truck toll billing system, with toll collections expected to resume in spring 2027.
Gov. Dan McKee did not attend Grow Smart Rhode Island's gubernatorial forum, but his administration was a central focus of the three challengers who participated: Democrat Helena Buonanno Foulkes, Republican...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with its plans to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that opens them...
Vineyard Wind 1 is producing power at less than half of its expected capacity as it remains in litigation with its turbine supplier, and its parent company is being sued for more than $1 million.
Former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi is asking a Providence County Superior Court judge to toss an ethics complaint challenging his application to join the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Rhode Island Current won a dozen awards, including for first place honors, in the Rhode Island Press Association’s 2026 Editorial Awards presented Friday night at the Quonset O Club in North Kingstown. The...
A new, 13-course, 34-hour professional certification program for local elections administrators celebrated its first set of graduates in a ceremony at the Rhode Island Board of Elections offices Thursday. Th...
Neither Gov. Dan McKee nor challenger Helena Foulkes received enough support to secure the Rhode Island Democratic Party's endorsement at its convention Saturday, marking the first time in recent history tha...
Legislation that became law last week without Gov. Dan McKee’s signature would bar libraries from entering into or renewing certain digital licensing contracts that interfere with core operations, such as...
Rhode Island healthcare insurers are again seeking double-digit increases in premiums, fresh off record rate hikes in 2025. The surging costs, meant to keep insurers and healthcare providers solvent, will be...
Cumberland Democrats rebuffed their own in endorsing Helena Foulkes over Gov. Dan McKee in the gubernatorial race on Monday. Meanwhile, the embattled incumbent governor launched a new TV ad on Tuesday, his 7...
John J. McConnell Jr., chief judge for Rhode Island’s U.S. District Court, found no misconduct warranting discipline against a federal prosecutor who did not initially tell another judge about a murder war...
Rhode Island Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Charest isn’t retiring on July 3 as planned, after Gov. Dan McKee asked him to stay on to help oversee state healthcare programs.
The Trump administration is running out of legal paths to block offshore wind development, after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston dismissed its appeal seeking to overturn a Massachusetts feder...
The turnaround plans for Providence schools from Providence city officials and the Rhode Island Department of Education included all sorts of aspirational metrics that would signal success for students. Seve...
One of Vineyard Wind’s parent companies allegedly owes nearly $1.2 million to its Boston landlord over unpaid rent, according to a lawsuit filed against the offshore wind company last week.
Legislation shifting Rhode Island's 2028 presidential preference primary to Super Tuesday won unanimous backing in both chambers of the Rhode Island General Assembly. But same-day voter registration, an onli...
After completing a nearly $5 million capital campaign, the Newport Historical Society celebrates the opening of its Center for Black History at the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House on Juneteenth weekend. A major pa...
Gov. Dan McKee signed a three-year moratorium on new charter schools in Rhode Island, citing declining enrollment and funding concerns, while also marking a shift for the longtime charter supporter.
A corpse flower smells like decay and lives for a few hours when it blooms. Yet when one bloomed at the University of Rhode Island this week, it got thousands of people talking about it with the same affecti...
WASHINGTON — A group of 16 U.S. Senate Democrats is calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to tighten its regulation of prediction markets, citing concerns over insider trading and other consu...
A bill imposing a three-year moratorium on new charter schools and reducing the statewide cap has passed the Rhode Island House. The legislation needs one more concurrence vote from the Senate before it can...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday that administration officials were close to brokering an end to the hostilities with Iran and predicted there could be a signing ceremony in Europe as...
A sweeping overhaul of Rhode Island’s public records law remains on hold, but lawmakers agreed to one noteworthy change that makes state traffic accident data public.