1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (541+ words) Driving her dog Ranger to the veterinarian on Thursday, Sept. 10, Jodi Elizabeth was pulling up to a red light in Providence when she saw an exchange between a police officer and an "elderly gentleman" that caught her eye. Elizabeth, a…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (997+ words) Tom Verdi will tell you it feels like it just happened, arriving as a cop at Ground Zero, the wreck of the towers still smoldering. Twenty-five years ago. Verdi was a Providence lieutenant then. He rose to deputy chief and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (317+ words) Colin Hogan joined The Providence Journal in August, coming from the New Bedford Light, with plans to cover the city of Providence and surrounding communities. With the primary election less than a month away, Colin was able to jump right…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (465+ words) Vic Mellor, who won the Republican primary in Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District, describes marching to the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, as one of the top moments of his life. Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer who defended the Capitol that…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1079+ words) PROVIDENCE — After Wednesday’s primary delivered victories for progressive candidates up and down the ballot in Providence, city leaders are all but certain to enact limits on rent increases in 2027. The Providence City Council narrowly failed to enact rent control earlier…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (851+ words) State Rep. David Morales, a 27-year-old member of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated Mayor Brett Smiley in the Democratic primary for mayor of Providence on Sept. 9, ending the incumbent’s bid for a second term in Rhode Island’s largest city....

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (48+ words) Europe's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino pattern grows stro... A Rhode Island man, dubbed "King of the PawPaws," is…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (107+ words) A Rhode Island man has turned his backyard into a garden with a plant that most Ocean State residents do not have. Joe Barros of East Providence has hundreds of pawpaw trees planted in his yard. It is the largest…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1766+ words) Rhode Island's 2026 primary gets underway today with polls opening at 7 a.m. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed the bill at the urging of state and local officials, who were concerned that an election day falling the day after Labor Day would not…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (409+ words) Three of the region’s top political organizers are trying to build a new kind of political infrastructure — one they hope can bring donors and progressive groups together around a long-term strategy for expanding who votes, who runs, and who governs…...