2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (52+ words) Students across Rhode Island are heading back to school, and many of them will be participating in athletics this fall. You can watch this full show and the rest of our Back to School interviews and special reports on the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1697+ words) Football receives the fanfare but it’s hardly the only high school sport that’s ready to go for 2026. The Rhode Island Interscholastic League fall season kicked off on Aug. 17. In previous years, football would have a one-week head start, but things were…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (667+ words) The Rhode Island high school football season officially starts on Monday, Aug. 17, and before you know it everyone will be getting ready to crown champions at Cranston Stadium. But who will those teams be? The Providence Journal will have no…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (561+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (156+ words) William A. Hough takes on Providence Day School tonight as the 2026 high school football schedule ramps up across the country. Searching for how to watch the game live? Fans can stream the North Carolina high school football game live on the…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (1656+ words) The television ad begins with a close-up of U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner delivering a speech. Then it zooms out, revealing that he’s talking to a small group of men in suits who are sitting around a table piled with stacks of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (615+ words) Rhode Island has set an ambitious new goal for itself to dramatically reduce chronic absenteeism in schools to below 10% over the next four years. For context: In the 2021-2022 school year, more than 34% of public school students in Rhode Island missed…...

5+ day, 7+ 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…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (397+ words) PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University have split nearly $2 million in grants from the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, an empirical research nonprofit out of Los Angeles, to study emotional regulation and habit change in middle schoolers and college students....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (48+ words) Providence school leaders said while there are no plans to close any schools this year, the process to recommend facility closures will look different. Providence school leaders said while there are no plans to close any schools this year, the…...