Only months ago, Rhode Island's bid to build the nation's first offshore wind farm seemed dead in the water. The state's Public Utilities Commission this spring rejected a proposed pricing agreement between Deepwater Wind — the project's developer — and a power distributor, in part due to ...
A local college's newspaper is back in its office this month after clashing with the president of the student body and finding itself locked out of its publication room.
DJ Pauly D is back in town for two days only, making a brief stop home before leaving for Los Angeles on Friday, said his agent.
The black leather couches at the renovated Cable Car Cinema offer the coziness of a living room back at home. But the murals on the right-hand wall — in one a red brick Providence building sinks deep into dreamy underwater blue — provide a touch of surrealism for a journey into the cinematic ...
On the eve of a hurricane last Thursday, the four Democratic candidates for mayor — state Rep. Steven Costantino, D-Providence; City Councilman John Lombardi; former Housing Court judge Angel Taveras; and returning candidate Chris Young — stood onstage at the Rhode Island School of Design ...
Democrat Frank Caprio has taken a slight lead against his top opponent, Independent Lincoln Chafee '75, in the latest poll in the Rhode Island race for governor.
When medical marijuana became legal in Rhode Island in June 2007, Luis Hernandez figured it would only be a matter of time until a school teaching proper growing techniques sprang up. As he watched years go by, nobody took action, and he decided to take matters into his own hands. His school, the New ...
Congressional candidate Mayor David Cicilline '83 has come under fire for using Brown's logo in a fundraising appeal for Rhode Island's 1st District race.
The competition for Mexican food on campus is about to spice up. Chipotle Mexican Grill is set to open a Thayer Street location around November, said Chris Arnold, public relations director for the company. The restaurant will move into the space previously occupied by Roba Dolce on the corner of ...
Two months after school officials agreed to rehire teachers and faculty who lost their jobs at Central Halls High School, the district is preparing to rehabilitate the underperforming school for the upcoming academic year. The mass firings that sparked national headlines originally came in the ...
Despite its liberal reputation, Rhode Island has picked a Republican governor in seven of the last nine election cycles. One Republican whose name won't be on the ballot — term-limited Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 — will leave his successor the top job in a state saddled with double-digit unemployment, ...
Outside, crowds have begun to gather in anticipation, and inside, ovens and stoves are nearly warm enough to welcome the hundreds of orders they will field that day. A full staff has spent the past hour cracking eggs and readying potatoes, and the aroma of fresh drip coffee now seeps through the locked ...
When Patrick Kennedy was first elected to Congress in 1994, his victory marked a rare bright note in an otherwise dismal year for the Democratic Party.
A rainy Saturday morning did not stop the Rhode Island Latino Complete Count Committee from going out, door to door, on April 17 to encourage Central Falls residents to fill out the census forms.
An amendment requiring state lawmakers to immediately begin paying 15 percent of costs for their state-provided health care plans was tabled in the early morning hours of April 14 after members of the state House of Representatives expressed concern that voting on the amendment was an ethical violation. ...
David Quinn GS is leading a double life. A Brown graduate student currently earning his Master of Education by day, he serves on the Seekonk, Mass. school committee by night.He was elected on April 5 in an uncontested election. To win the position, he had to run a "sticker campaign" in which voters ...
Gano Park was seasonably gray beneath Saturday morning's steady drizzle. But by noon, volunteers had cleared piles of trash, wet logs and debris from the banks of the Seekonk River. As the chainsaws slowed, community members spoke of a renewed life for the park — of boat ramps and bike paths — ...
In the month of March, Rhode Island saw the largest number of people without a home since 1985, when it began keeping track, said Jim Ryczek, executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless.Ryczek's organization has noted a steady increase in the amount of homeless people checking ...
Two bills that would end the criminal prohibition of marijuana use came before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday. The first bill — proposed by Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence, whose district includes College Hill — would legalize the drug under certain conditions. ...
In response to historic flooding across much of Rhode Island at the end of March, the University donated $50,000 last week to the United Way of Rhode Island's Flood Recovery Fund. Brown community members affected by the flood have also begun to take advantage of University emergency relief programs. ...
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