How an outbreak of violence on a January holiday figures in homicide statistics during the first six months of 2025.

Providence City Council President Rachel Miller is reneging on a deal to allow the Excel Academy charter school to take over ...

On July 24, City Councilors voted 8-4 against the rental agreement to give Excel Academy a 35-year lease over the property. The plan was Mayor Brett Smiley’s second attempt in two years at ...

For the second time in two years, the City Council overwhelmingly rejected a proposed agreement that would have allowed a ...

The city’s four sirens can only be heard in one section of South Providence, and it isn’t clear what to do if you hear one.

The Providence City Council has voted against a plan to lease a shuttered elementary school to a charter school company.

The Providence Parks Department and One Neighborhood Builders worked together to provide Merino Park with sustainable public ...

It’s not just clams, quahogs and coffee milk: the Rhode Island capital has an increasingly diverse culinary scene.

Higher Ground International, a nonprofit that provides services to West African immigrants, refugees, and other marginalized ...

Rhode Island’s other two trolls, named Erik Rock and Greta Granit, are both located at Ninigret Park in Charlestown. Those ...

People kept asking why we didn’t just buy the Parkhouse property as open space, but the fact is the township didn’t have the ...