On Wednesday night, October 15, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will begin making repairs to the Chapman Pond Railroad Bridge on Route 78 in Westerly. This will require some traffic pattern changes over the next several weeks with the work expected to wrap up by the end of...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is alerting the public that a rabid bat was found on Humboldt Avenue in Providence in the area of Gladys Potter Park in the late afternoon on October 1st.
The Providence Animal Control Division retrieved the bat after reports that it was acting...
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is currently open and operational as normal, despite the federal government shutdown. Benefits are active and can be used at WIC vendors, and participants can still attend or schedule new appointments. Participants...
On Friday night, October 3, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will remove lane shifts to provide more space for merging traffic where I-95 North and Route 4 North meet in Warwick. The change represents the last phase of work on a project to widen the highway corridor to provide...
Providence, RI – From Westerly to Woonsocket and points in between, the R.I. State Council on the Arts (RISCA) has approved 160 recommended grants totaling more than $944,604 to be awarded to arts and culture organizations, individual artists, folk apprenticeships and fellowships, arts educators...
At 1:10 p.m., Troopers arrested Nicholas Minutelli, age 30, of 2 Poplar Drive, Cranston, Rhode Island, for Possession of a Schedule I to V Controlled Substance 10 Grams or Less (Alprazolam). The arrest was the result of Troopers responding to a motor vehicle accident on Route 4 in the Town of...
Providence, R.I. -- The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and Rhode Island Humanities (RI Humanities) have partnered to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month in October. The Councils will host programs, webinars, workshops and celebrations aligned with the theme: Engaging Our...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is advising consumers of a public health alert concerning ready-to-eat meals containing pre-cooked pasta that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm).
The following product is subject to the public health alert:
12-oz. clear...
NEWPORT, RI – Secretary of State Gregg M. Amore and the RI Department of State Elections Division today hosted the biennial Cybersecurity Summit in Newport, Rhode Island. Nearly 150 attendees, consisting of state and local elections officials, local IT staff, and law enforcement, joined...
Starting Monday night, September 29, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will resume nighttime closures on short sections of I-95 and I-295 in both directions for continued reconstruction of bridges that span these highways along East Avenue in Warwick. The bridge over I-95 is...
