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Downtown Providence Starbucks workers have voted to unionize -- making it the first Rhode Island location to do so.

Multiple students were arrested protesting at Brown University on Monday afternoon, GoLocal has learned.

In what the Rhode Island Department of Transportation is calling an "Emergency Announcement" that due to the finding of a critical failure in the Washington Bridge components, the agency "will close the westbound side of the Washington Bridge.

It was just six years ago when Hasbro was looking to build a new gleaming global headquarters in Providence.

The impact of the westbound lane closures on the Washington Bridge -- and the diversion of traffic into East Providence -- has forced city officials to let schools out early and afternoon Pre-K being canceled on Tuesday.

GoLocal's People on the Move is an update on new hires and promotions across southern New England. If your organization has an announcement, email it to us at news@golocalprov.com.

Maven’s Deli — which opened recently on East Avenue in Pawtucket on the Providence line — has announced it is temporarily closing.

Coming on Monday is a GoLocal investigation looking at how one of Rhode Island's institutions of higher education lost record amounts — upwards of $100 million all while executives took record compensation packages.

Johnson & Wales University was a high-flying, fast-growing higher education corporation in the 2010s.

When I drive through the city of Providence at Christmas time, the days of my youth flash by; those days when I accompanied Mom to the city, when the town was vibrant with shoppers and the windows were sparkling. It was not like the usual Saturday when I