Janine Weisman

Over 7,000 combat boots on display in a memorial to fallen U.S. service members at Fort Adams State Park in Newport are holding up thanks to the TLC from Operation Stand Down staff and hundreds of volunteers. The memorial is on view through Monday.

Preliminary findings by the Rhode Island Office of the State Fire Marshal suggest the early Tuesday morning fire that seriously damaged the Matunuck Oyster Bar and displaced its 300 workers was accidental. The investigation into the cause of the blaze continues, but several possible causes have been ruled out, according to a release from the […]

The Rhode Island Office of the State Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of Tuesday’s early morning fire that engulfed the popular Matunuck Oyster Bar in South Kingstown.

As striking workers picketed outside Butler Hospital for the fifth day Monday, the Providence psychiatric hospital’s management announced that health insurance for employees not actively working will be terminated at the end of the month.

Frontline workers at Butler Hospital unable to reach a new contract with hospital management will walk off the job starting at 6 a.m. Thursday, despite a push by state lawmakers to coax both sides back to the negotiating table.

Rhode Island Current took home seven awards — including first place for Best Website, General News Photo and Headline Writing — at the annual Rhode Island Press Association Editorial Awards Banquet on Friday, May 9.

About 90 lifeguards have already been hired to work at Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) beaches ahead of the summer 2025 season. But more are still needed.

Twenty attorneys general filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island in Providence to stop U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the agency he leads from dismantling key public health programs.

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. representative to NATO’s Military Committee, was fired over the weekend, the Associated Press reported Monday.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and his counterparts in New York and Hawaii are the lead plaintiffs in a complaint filed Friday against the Trump administration seeking to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies that support public libraries and museums, workers, and small businesses.