PROVIDENCE, RI Governor Dan McKee, the Department of Environmental Management (DEM), the Town of Cumberland, and the Cumberland Land Trust today are announcing the protection of a pristine, 84-acre swath of forested land including tributaries of two reservoirs that are critical drinking water...
PROVIDENCE, RI The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) along with partners the RI Tree Council, Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and the Arbor Day Foundation is giving 1,000 trees away to Rhode Islanders this spring through the Energy-Saving Trees program....
Opening reception is on Thursday, April 20, 5 p.m.-7 p.m.
Providence, RI The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) announced today works by Native American artist Cynthia "Listens to the Wind" Ross Meeks will be on display from April 11 to June 7 at the Atrium Gallery at One Capitol...
PROVIDENCE, RI The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) has opened the Great Swamp Shooting Range for the season and welcomes sportsmen and women to use Rhode Island's only free, public outdoor shooting range. Located within the Great Swamp Management Area in South Kingstown, the range...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) this week will start milling and paving a 10-mile stretch of Boston Neck Road (Route 1A) in North Kingstown and Narragansett. The work will start on the northern section of this road, pause at the Bridgetown Road intersection in Narragansett in...
PROVIDENCE, RI East Matunuck State Beach will close for about a two-week stretch starting Monday, April 3, to allow crews to wrap up a construction project that added a third lane to the entrance and strengthened stormwater controls, the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced...
Change will create a more direct link between Downtown Newport and the City's North End
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is reminding motorists that tomorrow night, Thursday, March 30, it will open a new intersection at the Pell Bridge Ramps Project,...
PROVIDENCE, RI Secretary of State Gregg M. Amore, in collaboration with Governor Dan McKee, today announced the tentative calendar for the upcoming special election in Congressional District 1. The special election will fill the vacancy anticipated by Congressman David N. Cicilline's planned...
PROVIDENCE, RI The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank (RIIB) are encouraging Rhode Island communities that have identified needed water quality improvement projects to submit them for inclusion on DEM's fiscal year 2024 project priority list (PPL)....
Champion to participate in national poetry competitions in May
With the recitation of "No, I wasn't meant to love and be loved," by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Classical High School junior and 2023 Youth Poet Ambassador, Natasha Connolly, won the 18th annual 2023 R.I. Poetry Out Loud State...
