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Books Are Wings gave its community champion award to Rep. Jennifer A. Stewart, Sen. Mark McKenney and Providence Mayor-elect David Morales for sponsoring the 2025 law that bars censorship of library materials.
The Town Council voted 5-0 for the ordinance, which takes effect Jan. 1 with no exemption for the Fishbowl, while store workers described harassment and the council president apologized to the owners.
The Rhode Island Democrat said voters chose to give his party a chance to lower costs and put a check on what he called the administration's corruption.
Photographs and artifacts from the Rhode Island State Police Museum and Educational Center, including early uniforms, badges and patrol equipment, will be on display in Providence through January 2027.
The House Judiciary Committee will take testimony Nov. 17 on Superior Court Associate Justice Luis M. Matos's nomination to the state's highest court. Written comments are due before the hearing.
The six governors told congressional appropriations leaders that rising heating oil prices will erode federal heating assistance this winter. They asked for the increase through either the annual budget or an emergency appropriation.
Alessio Dandrea, 30, admitted to two federal counts after a search of his home turned up six guns and two silencers, prosecutors said. The search followed the interception of a package from China containing a device that converts a rifle to automatic fire.
A break near William Barton Drive and Bulgarmarsh Road on Sunday night caused a drop in water pressure, and the advisory covers the entire water system, the Rhode Island Department of Health said.
The state has confirmed 48 rabid animals so far this year, nearly double its average annual count from 2021 to 2025, the Rhode Island Department of Health said.
Randy Diaz-Pizarro, 34, will serve the new term after the 120-month federal sentence he is already serving, prosecutors said.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said the federal earmark will let the nonprofit expand mental health care for more than 800 young children in its early childhood centers and nearly double its behavioral health staff.
Gov. Dan McKee picked Associate Judge Debra Saunders to lead the District Court and named Family Court Magistrate Denise Cassisi Finkelman and labor lawyer Carly B. Iafrate to the Superior Court. The nominations go to the state Senate.
As much as 6 inches of rain fell on parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, swamping a Falmouth gas station and closing streets from New Bedford to Bourne.
The 39-year-old driver's truck first rear-ended another vehicle, according to State Police. No one else was hurt, and no one has been charged.
Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are among the states asking a federal appeals court to deny the Trump administration's request to pause a ruling against conditions on Homeland Security grant money.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will fund a new program paying Rhode Island farmland owners to keep their land out of development, state environmental officials said.
The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training said more than 25 employers will recruit for corporate jobs at the Nov. 14 fair, the second it has organized with the Hasbro move in mind.
The state Department of Environmental Management said rainbow and brook trout will go into ponds from Burrillville to Little Compton through Nov. 10 in honor of veterans.
Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee called the project's completion a highlight of his administration and credited his office with protecting it from interference by the Trump administration.
The former CVS executive, who ousted Gov. Dan McKee in the September primary, has never held elected office and will be the second woman to serve as the state's governor.
The Democrat defeated Republican Raymond McKay. If Democrats win the Senate, Reed would be in line to lead the Armed Services Committee.
Luis Martinez, 47, had pleaded guilty to selling guns to prohibited people, illegally possessing firearms as a felon and dealing cocaine, federal prosecutors said.
Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark is among the signers of a bipartisan letter backing the Senate version of the bill, which would set minimum safety standards for social media and gaming platforms.
A coalition including Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark says a U.S. Census Bureau proposal would unlawfully exclude millions of noncitizens and drop questions on race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.