PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Revolution Wind has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in order to challenge the Trump administration's stop-work order on its wind power project 15 miles off of Rhode Island's coast.…
NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE)-- Crowds gathered in Newport on Tuesday evening to rally against the Trump administration's stop-work order on the Revolution Wind project. The project, according to builders Ørsted, would generate enough energy once finished to power 350,000 homes in…
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE) -- Emotions were high in Quonset on Monday, as Rhode Island union leaders and the state's congressional delegation lamented…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Danish wind farm developer, Orsted, said the Revolution Wind project is about 80 percent complete, with 45 of its…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- High Noon has issued a voluntary recall of its vodka seltzer after some cases were mislabeled as Celsius energy drinks. The…
WARWICK, R.I. (WLNE) -- The 60th annual Gaspee Days Parade in Warwick Saturday celebrated a key moment in American history, just as the country begins its…
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE) -- South Kingstown and Narragansett will hold a public forum with officials from Rhode Island Energy. The forum will be on…
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…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Brown University Health said a power outage at Rhode Island Hospital Saturday morning put the hospital on diversion. A spokesperson said that an electrical feed from Rhode Island Energy to Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Resident physicians and fellows have made history at Rhode Island Hospital by becoming the first doctors to unionize in the Ocean State.…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Thursday is expected to bring some more snow and rain, and outages have already been reported in parts of Rhode Island. Click here to view the Rhode Island Energy outage map Click here to view the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- United Way of Rhode Island announced the Rhode Island Good Neighbor Energy Fund has begun for the 2024 through 2025 season. The fund helps families that need assistance paying their home heating bills but are not…
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE) --The change in presidential administration in Washington means blue states like Rhode Island will lose some connections at the federal level.…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rhode Island officials have responded to the Associated Press announcing that Donald Trump is projected to win the the 2024 Presidential Election. United States Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) After a hard fought election in a country…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rhode Island Hospital experienced a power outage at approximately 8 a.m. Wednesday and is on diversion, according to a statement from Lifespan. According to the statement, both electrical feeds from Rhode Island Energy to the facility…
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WLNE) -- Officials from Massachusetts and Rhode Island announced what they said was the "largest offshore wind selection in New England History" on Friday. Massachusetts selected 2,678 MW in total from three projects, including SouthCoast Wind, New…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Residents of Northern Rhode Island and Massachusetts saw severe storm damage overnight. The storms brought winds between 70 and 80 miles an hour, with Lincoln seeing…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rhode Island gas prices dropped another three cents last week, continuing a downward trend in the cost of fuel. The average gas price in Rhode Island stood at $3.41 per gallon, 16 cents lower than a…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management's Energy-Saving Trees program will return with registration opening April 12. RIDEM is partnering with the Rhode Island Tree Council, the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association, and the Arbor…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rhode Island Energy announced today that electricity prices may drop significantly this spring. This is based on a new rate proposal that is before the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission (RIPUC). The supply decrease applies to…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- A new carbon emissions bill is being introduced in the Rhode Island House, with the goal of reducing carbon emissions from buildings. The Building De-Carbonization Act would require large buildings to report their energy usage and…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- As a significant snowstorm heads to Rhode Island, officials say they are focused on timing, with potential heavy snowfall starting mid-morning through the early afternoon. The state…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Some Rhode Islanders are still without power after Saturday's heavy rain. According to Rhode Island Energy's outage map, there were still 26 outages as of 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. This affected an estimated 80 residents. At…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Nearly 6,000 people remain without power throughout Rhode Island after Saturday morning's storm. According to Rhode Island Energy's outage map webpage 3,939 customers were without power as of 1:45 p.m. At one point this morning, the…
