Johnston News

The deputy director of the state's embattled trash agency and four other employees have been fired.

Town Planner Michelle Maher has given notice that she will leave her position next month to take a job with the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation.

Given Governor Carcieri's steady emphasis on illegal immigrants, it's interesting, isn't it, that it took a chance event to reveal the extent to which undocumented workers were helping to clean state offices? ...

Twenty-two lawyers were elected as fellows of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Rhode Island Bar Association, the bar said today.

An asbestos-removal contractor who did work for public agencies in Providence Cranston, North Providence and South Kingstown, yesterday pleaded guilty to extorting kickbacks from his employees.

On the Friday morning of June 6, a court clerk walked into the J. Joseph Garrahy Judicial Complex and noticed something suspicious.

Cumberland Mayor Daniel J. McKee and those who support his plans for a new-fangled Charter School they say will revolutionize education may have hurdled a major obstacle last month, but the school is still far ...

Do you ever wonder where your trash goes? Or those recycled bottles and cans? Now anyone can see what happens in a tour of the state Central Landfill, in Johnston, an eye opener that Rhode Island Monthly ...

Raymond E. Johnston and M. Hazel Johnston asked architect Richard C. Niebuhr to build them a house that included a living and cooking area, a space for the family to socialize and sleeping quarters.

Almost 400 years after Roger Williams established a new colony by a freshwater spring along what is now North Main Street, 51 people from 24 nations gathered in the same spot yesterday to become some of the ...

When it comes to advancing the cause of solar energy in Rhode Island, nothing is ever easy, or so it seems.

Five towns are planning to combine police and fire dispatching at a central location to save money and handle emergency communications over a wider area, leaders said.

The gov's office released this optimistic statement earlier this week: Funding Approved for SAMP Governor Donald L. Carcieri today announced that the Rhode Island Renewable Energy Fund Board of Trustees ...

NINE OF THE 39 cities and towns statewide are planning to raise property taxes by more than 5 percent, but 28 have filed requests for increases "at or below" the statutory maximum, according to R.I. Revenue ...

American Foam Corp. has filed a tentative $6.3 million settlement with victims and survivors of the 2003 fire at The Station in West Warwick.

A federal grand jury indictment charges a man who was working for a carnival and concessions company in Rhode Island with failing to register as a sex offender here after he was convicted in Georgia 10 years ...

Some people don't normally file a federal income-tax return because their income falls below a certain level.

A company that sold the flammable foam blamed for fueling a Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle lawsuits from survivors and victims' relatives.

Administration negotiators have reached tentative contract agreements with "almost all" the unions representing state employees, according to Gov.

You now have the option to have your monthly Social Security benefits loaded directly onto a special debit card.