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Democrats praised the budget for boosting funding for public transportation and cost-of-living adjustments to some retirees, while Republicans criticized film tax credits and the corporate minimum tax.

The hearing provided a few new details, including what additional problems have been found in the troubled span.

“When you watch ‘School House Rock,’ no one says, ‘That poor bill sitting on Capitol Hill can only have 14 friends,’ " Common Cause’s John Marion said.

Limited two-way traffic on Interstate 195 could resume Saturday — or sooner.

As plumes and ash from the Nova Scotia wildfires reach Rhode Island, climate change is contributing to conditions ripe for wildfires not just in places like Canada, but here too.

As plumes and ash from the Nova Scotia wildfires reach Rhode Island, climate change is contributing to conditions ripe for wildfires not just in places like Canada, but here too.

Bills would ban assault-style weapons, require secure storage of all firearms, and increase education on gun suicide prevention.

A year after the state legislature imposed a ban on “large capacity” magazines requiring existing owners to destroy them, turn them over to police, or remove them from the state in order t...

House Republican leader says Representative Robert Quattrocchi “has no interest in reacting to Mr. Safford’s politically opportunistic pablum.”

Speaker Shekarchi removed Representative Robert Quattrocchi, a Scituate Republican, from a House committee Thursday after he asked Representative Rebecca Kislak, a Providence Democrat who is a lesbian, if she is a pedophile.