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Pandas on Ice: How the Pembroke Pandas became a national hockey powerhouse
In the second episode of The Herald’s new podcast series “Pandas On Ice,” podcast editor and metro editor Jacob Smollen speaks with former Pembroke Pandas to tell the story of how the first ...
Pandas on Ice: The story of America's first women's college hockey team
Jacob Smollen
Rhode Island Special Commission to explore placing solar panels on highway medians
A special legislative commission studying the placement of solar panels on interstate highways was announced in a September press release from the Rhode Island state House of Representatives. In their ...
City takes Comprehensive Plan outreach to Providence’s wards
On a rainy Monday night last week, nearly two dozen Providence residents filed into the Reservoir Avenue Elementary School gymnasium in the city’s eighth ward.
How Gabe Amo won the special primary and what it might mean for 2024
Gabe Amo, a former White House aide under the Obama and Biden administrations, won the special Democratic primary election for Rhode Island’s 1st U.S. Congressional District Sept. 5. The results, as ...
Gabe Amo wins CD1 special Democratic primary
Gabe Amo, a former White House aide during the Obama and Biden administrations, defeated a crowded Democratic field in a special primary election for Rhode Island’s 1st U.S. Congressional District Tuesday ...
Rhode Island launches first Youth Point in Time Count in five years
Rhode Island is currently conducting its first point-in-time count of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness since 2018, according to a press release from the Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness ...
Project Weber/RENEW, CODAC selected to open country’s first state-regulated overdose prevention center
The first state-regulated overdose prevention center in the nation will open in Providence in early 2024, according to a Tuesday press release by Project Weber/RENEW, a Providence-based nonprofit harm ...
Assault weapons ban, safe storage bills held for further study by R.I. Judiciary Committee
The R.I. House Judiciary Committee recommended that 27 gun-related bills up for consideration be held for further study — including legislation which would ban assault-style weapons — at a hearing ...
Higher Ed roundup: Harvard faces backlash after controversial donation
Content warning: This article includes references to sexual assault.
R.I. food pantries face surge in demand following SNAP benefit decreases last month
Most months, the Federal Hill House in Providence receives 50 to 75 new applicants to their food pantry. But last month, they received 157 applications.
R.I. House passes bill proposing harm reduction pilot extension
On Thursday, the Rhode Island House of Representatives voted 51-13 to pass a bill that proposes extending the state’s harm reduction pilot program for an additional two years from its current end date ...
Activists, legislators hope Medicaid, ‘Pay for Success’ can help alleviate the housing crisis in Rhode Island
Activists and state legislators are considering supportive housing — which combines affordable housing with wraparound social services — as a means of addressing Rhode Island’s homelessness crisis ...
Rhode Island moves closer to opening first overdose prevention center
Last month, the Rhode Island General Assembly proposed a series of bills to extend a state pilot program to open overdose prevention centers. If passed, the program’s current March 1, 2024 expiration ...
Following Josh Saal’s resignation, new leadership appointed to Rhode Island housing department
Former Rhode Island Secretary of Housing Josh Saal ’09 submitted his letter of resignation Wednesday, Jan. 11 only a year after stepping into the position. The resignation comes after months of criticism ...
At a weekly breakfast, a taste of RIPTA’s free transport program
At 7 a.m. last Sunday, a small line formed outside a side chapel at Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in downtown Providence. Normally, lines at this hour would only be for food, as the church ...
'It’s history': How the University acquired the archives of Mumia Abu-Jamal
After over two years of efforts and a few surprising phone calls, the work of a man The New York Times once described as the “most visible” prisoner on death row is now at the John Hay Library.
‘It’s so Brown’: Nudity, controversy, body positivity on campus
Each semester, a swarm of students runs nude through the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Sciences Libraries, delivering donuts to their peers in the most prominent example of nudity on Brown’s campus. ...
Rhode Islanders see 47% increase in their electricity bills
Following a public comment session on Sept. 23, the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission approved a 47% increase in residential electricity bills proposed by Rhode Island Energy for this winter.