Providence News

Rhode Island's unemployment rate is the second highest in the country at 11.2 percent.

A boat believed to have fallen off a trailer was blocking all the lanes that connect westbound Route 195 to northbound Route 95 late Friday.

The city has reached an agreement with two more tax-exempt institutions to provide payments in lieu of taxes, Mayor Angel Taveras announced Friday afternoon in a news release.

Johnston Police this week reported two "open incidents," including a stolen car involved in a high-speed chase and the apparent theft of landscaping equipment.

The Gaspee Days Parade is always led by the historical Rhode Island Mace, a wooden object that has been used in inaugural ceremonies for Rhode Island Governors since the swearing-in of Governor Charles D. Kimball in 1902.

Police tell WPRI-TV the accident happened at about 1 a.m. Friday on Manton Avenue near the intersection with Chalkstone Avenue.

Officials report accords with public employees restricting pension increases in order to keep the programs solvent.

A former bouncer at a Providence strip club is set to learn his punishment on charges that he participated in the shakedown of strip clubs by the New England Mafia.

The Rhode Island House has passed a bill sponsored by Rep. Joy Hearn that would instill a mandatory suspension of an operator's license in the instance that a driver is convicted of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily harm to an individual.

TV, a Media General NBC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island, announced that it has reached an agreement on a new retransmission consent contract with Cox Cable, and that NBC 10 will continue to be available on the Cox Cable after 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2012.

The Biltmore will now undergo a top to bottom renovation that could begin in June.

The University of Rhode Island has hired a Providence lawyer to represent the school in any legal matters associated with a nonprofit sport institute facing a police investigation.

A fire that destroyed a former discount furniture store in Providence has been labeled suspicious.

A former high-ranking union official is set to be sentenced in Rhode Island for bilking more than $100,000 from smaller labor and employee groups and withheld nearly $18,000 in income taxes.

A second major advance in the recent effort to once and for all overhaul the decades in the making corrupted Providence pension system is set to launch just one month from now.

A Forecast discussion: A cold front will be moving through New England early Thursday morning.

When I think of one adjective to describe and encompass Jerry C., at first, something like "quirky" comes to mind.

The city's agreement with its employees and retirees, announced Thursday, accomplishes "the painful and difficult work needed to pull Providence back from the brink," Mayor Angel Taveras said in a news release.

Anthony Gemma, the Democratic challenger for David Cicilline in the 1st Congressional Democratic race, has made his first major appointment to his campaign.

STEP aside Batman, there's a new show in town. A drone that mimics the way a bat changes its wing shape in flight could make small uncrewed vehicles far more agile.