The university will get $12.3 million over five years to study whether misusing substances is connected with chronic ...

On Election Day, Providence voters will make history by voting for the school board for the first time since the 1960s.

Over 500 people rallied at the Rhode Island State House in support of Palestine and Lebanon on Saturday, two days before the ...

Lifespan has agreed to pay Providence $1.5 million lieu of taxes, the first payment the nonprofit health system will make to ...

The Providence City Council passed a retooled cannabis zoning ordinance, which updates municipal zoning code to comply with ...

Mayor Brett P. Smiley, Councilwoman Jo-Ann Ryan, Director of Sustainability Priscilla De La Cruz and Deputy Director of ...

A month-long undercover police operation resulted in charges against 22 people for allegedly dealing cocaine around the ...

After not making a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes in three years, Lifespan has agreed to do so for at least the next two years.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Mayor Brett Smiley said he believes while Hasbro’s “ancestral home” is in Pawtucket, the capital city should be considered if a deal can’t be reached to keep ...

After a face-to-face meeting with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks, Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said he feels better about the city’s chances of holding onto the iconic toymaker have gone from needing a ...

Brett P. Smiley is a Democratic who ran for mayor of Providence, R.I., in 2014. He dropped out before the Democratic primary. The president of Campaign Finance Officers LLC, Smiley has managed ...