Kaitlin Gehlhaus

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) — On March 24 the South Coast Rail line will officially be open for service. “It’s a historical day realistically,” Executive Director and CEO of MassHire Michael Santos said. “We’ve been talking about the MBTA coming to New Bedford for 30 years now.” For the first time in 65 years, the communities of Taunton, Freetown, New...

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Football Club hosted a job fair at its headquarters Monday, offering upwards of 400 new jobs to the city of Pawtucket. “From the team’s standpoint, the ownership’s standpoint, that’s been one of those things we talk about a lot. This is soccer and more,” RIFC President David Peart said. “This is that more component.”...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Days after Saturday’s snow, pedestrians and cyclists are still facing icy sidewalks and bike paths on their commute. Providence Streets Coalition Operations Manager Dylan Giles said Geoff Williams and another volunteer from the coalition started clearing the East Bay bike path on their own using an eBike to clear enough snow for cyclists to make it...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) —  Just two days away from Valentine’s Day and Studio Flowers in Providence was bustling with business. “We are over 200 deliveries for this year so far and the last two days is usually when we see walk-ins, the phone ringing, and the internet is bringing us business,” Co-founder of Studio Flowers Grace Dugan said. “We are...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Police chiefs and mayors from all across New England came together in Providence to discuss policing strategies and topics like immigration enforcement. Twenty-two mayors and 19 police chiefs gathered for the conference. “It is remarkable that when we spend time together, we realize we are facing so many shared challenges,” Mayor Brett Smiley said. “And so...

NORWOOD, Mass. (WLNE) — The grieving process continued as the Skating Club of Boston lost six of its cherished members in the deadly plane crash in Washington D.C. “I think it is sinking to everybody that this is reality and that we are not going to see these folks again,” CEO Doug Zeghibe said. Two young athletes, Jinna Han of...

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WLNE) — Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena Jr. released a new proposal that would put a swift end to the proposed construction of 252 low-income housing units on George Waterman Road. “It wasn’t the fact that it was low-income or apartments,” Mayor Polisena said. “It was the size of it. I mean 252 units for a mid-size community like...

CENTRAL FALLS, RI (WLNE) — The Children’s Workshop Foundation and Child Builders ABA celebrated the opening of a new support classroom in Central Falls. On Tuesday, the new “step-out space” was opened to help children “be as successful as they can be in their environment,” Child Builders ABA Clinical Director Gina Parise said. “By doing so here we’re able to...

WEST GREENWICH, R.I. (WLNE) — West Greenwich police said on Wednesday that the four bodies found in a West Greenwich home on Cheyenne Trail was a murder-suicide. On Jan. 3, Danielle Arruda, 39, who was 7 months pregnant, her two kids, Adele, 5, and Felix, 2, were all found dead after suffering multiple gunshot wounds from a semi-automatic gun. “We...

NEW ORLEANS, La. — Law enforcement officials in New Orleans said that they no longer believe any other suspects were involved in the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street. After reviewing surveillance videos more closely, investigators said that the 42-year-old suspect, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, placed improvised explosive devices in the area himself, and then changed clothes. “This is not...