On Monday, the Providence City Council hosted a public hearing for the Comprehensive Plan, a document that helps guide the city’s urban planning and development.
Approximately 100 community members gathered this Saturday to provide input on how the Providence Public School District can improve in hopes of transitioning back from state to local control.
Hall of GraFX’s storefront is easy to miss. The business is only identified by the small logo tacked beside its double doors.
Next Monday, Providence’s City Council will host a public hearing on the city’s new Comprehensive Plan, outlining its development goals for the next ten years. The goals include increasing housing production and supporting historic preservation throughout the city.
Long-awaited Brown Bee Coffee opened its doors Thursday and is set to hold its grand opening on Benefit Street this Saturday, the business announced.
Rhode Island recorded its first human case in five years of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus that has been spreading in southern New England this summer, health officials announced Wednesday.
Rhode Islanders will have a lengthy ballot on their hands this November. Beyond presidential, Senate and House candidates, residents will also get a chance to vote on approving $160 million in support for higher education — and, potentially, to change the state’s constitution.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island’s incumbent Democrat senator, defeated challenger Michael Costa in the state Democratic primary.
After five years under state control, the Providence Public School District hoped this year to regain decision-making power over itself.
West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, two mosquito-borne illnesses, have returned to southern New England this summer.
Six acrobats soar 60 feet up in the sky, attracting a multitude of “oohs” and “aahs” from an audience of over five dozen wide-eyed onlookers in Kennedy Plaza.
Colorful containers of snacks, condiments and grocery staples populate a downtown Providence corner, as bright lights and bustling dishes usher in packs of passersby. This is Maruichi Japanese Food and Deli: a local market specializing in Japanese produce, pantry items and other goods.
Plant City has expanded from its original home in Providence, having recently opened a new location in Barrington.
On June 6, the Providence City Council heard an ordinance that would prohibit the city from investing its assets in Israeli bonds. The ordinance would also prevent Providence from reinvesting currently held sovereign bonds upon their maturity.
At approximately 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, all participants in a Rhode Island School of Design sit-in for dissociation from Israel exited 20 Washington Place, known as Prov-Wash. Approximately 30 rallying protestors entered the building and escorted the sit-in demonstrators out.
On Wednesday, faculty affiliated with two departments at the Rhode Island School of Design released statements in support of the ongoing student demonstrations at 20 Washington Place, better known as Prov-Wash.
RISD President Crystal Williams released information regarding the college’s investment portfolio and responded to student protestors’ demands in a Tuesday evening email sent to students and faculty.campus-wide email.
At around 10 a.m. Tuesday, civilians in the Providence Superior Court and nearby buildings were told to evacuate by the Providence Police Department.
The 24 Rhode Island School of Design students staging an occupation of the second hall of 20 Washington Place, better known as Prov-Wash, have been given until 8 a.m. Tuesday to clear out their demonstration, student protestors announced early Tuesday morning. Administrators have not announced consequences ...
A group of 21 students at the Rhode Island School of Design announced an indefinite “building occupation” on the first floor of 20 Washington Place Building, the administrative building better known as Prov-Wash.
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