# RI.gov: Rhode Island Government


State Government Press Releases

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05/18/2023
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee today announced his appointments to the Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission. The commission will oversee the regulation, licensing and control of adult use and medical cannabis in the Ocean State. The Governor will send these three names to the Rhode Island...
05/18/2023
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Representative David Cicilline, Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Liz Tanner, and SkillsRI Executive Director Nina Pande announced today the opening of small business applications for the RI Rebounds Technical...
05/18/2023
On Friday, May 19 the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is scheduled to shift travel lanes to the right in both directions around a construction zone in the center of the Farnum Pike (Route 104) bridges over I-295 in Smithfield. The bridges – one over I-295 North and the other...
05/15/2023
Today, Interim Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) Utpala Bandy, MD, MPH and Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, announced that a Superior Court judge has ordered that a receiver assume control of Pawtucket Falls Healthcare Center, following the filing of a Petition for Court-...
05/12/2023
PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee today announced his appointment of current Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals (BHDDH) Director Richard Charest to serve as the next Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS). The Governor...
05/12/2023
Providence, R.I.— With her original poem, Birdfolk at the End of the World, Classical High School junior Natasha B. Connolly won the 2023 companion competition to Poetry Out Loud, Poetry Ourselves. Connolly traveled to Washington, D.C., on May 9 and May 10 to compete in the NEA's Poetry Out...
05/12/2023
The week of May 15, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will implement traffic pattern changes and lane closures on city streets in Providence related to the ongoing $265 million Providence Viaduct Northbound Project. The changes will affect sections of Smith Street and Park...
05/11/2023
PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that its Division of Fish and Wildlife will hold a public hearing on proposed regulations relating to the 2023-24 and 2024-25 hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits and 2024-25 freshwater fishing and...
05/11/2023
PROVIDENCE, RI – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is announcing that its seasonal 24-hour telephone information line will open May 15 and remain open until Oct. 15. The Bay Line, 222-8888, is toll-free within the state. The Bay Line provides Rhode Islanders with a...
05/11/2023
Stay in Your Lane; All Lanes Go Through As part of the ongoing $78 million Washington Bridge project, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will make changes to the current lane split on I-195 West in East Providence, just prior to the bridge, on Friday night,...