JOHNSTON, RI (WLNE)- Rhode Island's second Market Basket location is now open for business. The new location is off of Hartford Avenue in Johnston. The Massachusetts based supermarket chain says the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The State of Rhode Island on Wednesday launched a new initiative to address the overdose epidemic in communities of color and other historically underserved groups disproportionately impacted by the overdose…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The Rhode Island Department of Health announced Friday that third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines will be available for some immunocompromised Rhode Islanders starting Saturday. Only those who are considered moderately to severely immunocompromised…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - Community spread of the coronavirus is now considered substantial by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Monday's data shows. According to RIDOH, the state's percent positivity rate for the…
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE) - The right two lanes of I-95 North at Jefferson Boulevard were briefly blocked Tuesday evening when four cars were involved in a crash. Rhode Island State Police confirm they responded to reports of a four-car crash…
JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man is planning a 19-mile swim from Block Island to Jamestown later this month to raise money for a nonprofit that works to keep…
President Joe Biden on Monday stood in solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who protested over the weekend about shortages and rising prices for food and medicine amid the coronavirus pandemic in what's being called an unprecedented rejection of the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – On Tuesday, Governor Dan McKee lifted the mask mandate in the Ocean State both indoors and outdoors at most places for fully vaccinated people. The announcement comes after the…
A man who killed a manager and wounded two workers at a Long Island grocery store was a “troubled employee” who had been reprimanded in recent months for threatening and sexually harassing colleagues, police said Wednesday. Gabriel DeWitt Wilson, a shopping cart…
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE) – High wind gusts ripped through Rhode Island Tuesday morning knocking thousands of people’s power out and taking down trees and lawn furniture with it. At the peak of the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – As eligibility expanded for Rhode Islanders 65 and older, many hit roadblocks while trying to schedule an appointment Monday morning. State-run vaccination appointments are currently live…
Playing for the first time since March 9, 2013, the Providence College men's basketball team defeated the UConn Huskies, 70-59, on Wednesday, February 10…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WLNE) – Governor Gina Raimondo’s confirmation as Secretary of Commerce is now facing some opposition. Senator Ted Cruz placed a hold on the confirmation after Raimondo declined to promise specifically to keep certain companies on a U.S. trade…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House resolution calling on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke constitutional authority to remove President Donald Trump from office was blocked Monday by Republicans. Democrats in the House are pushing Pence and the Cabinet to oust…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - The Rhode Island State Police Department released a statement in reaction to Wednesday's storming of the Capitol building in Washington D.C. Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Director of the Department of Public Safety,…
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Members of rescue services search in the debris of a collapsed building for survivors in Izmir, Turkey, early Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. A strong earthquake struck Friday in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) - After a protest blocked Route 95 North on Monday night, Senator Lou Raptakis (D-Dist. 33, Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich) plans to reintroduce bipartisan legislation that would make blocking a highway a felony charge. Senator Raptakis…
PROVIDENCE, R.I (WLNE) - Traffic was halted for a period of time on Monday night after a protest blocked all travel lanes on I-95 North by…
By Gene Johnson, Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them “a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service” before the November election.…
By Deb Riechmann and Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump frankly acknowledged Thursday that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money in order to make it harder to process an expected surge…
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WLNE)-- It's not uncommon to hear fireworks this time of year, but a number of Rhode Islanders say they are fed…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -Several shellfishing areas in Rhode Island are closing for the season starting Saturday due to potential water quality impacts associated with marinas and mooring fields. The harvesting areas will remain closed until Oct. 13, according to the…
The Department of Labor and Training has sent out letters to roughly 3 thousand claimants to verify personally identifiable information through the Social Security Administration. Angelika Pellegrino, a spokesperson for the DLT wants Rhode Islanders to know these letters are…
