4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (402+ words) PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Commerce Corporation has granted Organogenesis, a Massachusetts biotech firm, more than $13 million in tax incentives, to support the company’s opening of a new manufacturing facility in the Ocean State. Organogenesis, which produces and sells wound care and…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (626+ words) Providence City Councilor Miguel Sanchez announced Monday he has enough support to secure the council presidency come January, setting the stage for a progressive overhaul of City Hall government. The council’s 28-year-old majority whip, first elected in 2022, said his potential…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (712+ words) PROVIDENCE – A 19-year-old University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student was acting in self defense when he fatally stabbed a football player from the school and wounded another in an altercation in Providence earlier this month, his attorney said Monday. Chukwunonso Uzoma-Eze…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (839+ words) SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — The rare September nor’easter that hit Rhode Island over the weekend brought something the local surfing community has been missing all summer: big waves. “Surfers are going nuts,” said Peter Panagiotis, the 76-year-old Rhode Island surfing legend known…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (264+ words) PROVIDENCE — There is no shortage of musicals that have been record-breaking successes in the West End but flop upon their transfer across the pond to Broadway. Tim Rice, Benny Andersson, and Björn Ulvaeus’s “Chess,” for instance — an allegory for the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (798+ words) For years, the politically progressive Rhode Island news site Uprise RI quoted State Representative David Morales in its coverage of local law enforcement, transit, and legislative action. Morales said he hadn’t closely followed the changes at Uprise RI, but said…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (347+ words) Providence schools are back under local control, and there is already a movement underway to shake up the city’s School Board. The majority of the 10-member board is seeking to oust Ty’Relle Stephens as president — potentially as soon as next…...

1+ mon, 2+ 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…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (177+ words) PROVIDENCE — There was very little doubt that Helena Buonanno Foulkes was going to defeat incumbent Governor Dan McKee, but how did Foulkes sweep the state, beating incumbent Governor Dan McKee in every single Rhode Island city and town? Watch Globe…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (514+ words) PROVIDENCE — Helena Foulkes won every city and town in Rhode Island’s Democratic primary for governor Wednesday night, including incumbent Governor Dan McKee’s hometown of Cumberland, in a stunning wipeout that heralds a seismic shift in Rhode Island politics. A former…...