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Rhode Island voters on Tuesday approved seven proposals that call for the financing of public projects with borrowed money.  The most popular proposal to win approval in Tuesdays referendum calls for borrowing $74 million for environmental and recreation projects. It drew 78% of the vote. The borrowing package finances a wide range of spending from $33 million for upgrades at state beaches and parks to $6 million for dredging the Providence River.  The $7 million for "municipal resiliency" i...

Quonset wind turbine training facility on hold, but other port improvements advancing PLANS TO BUILD a training facility at Quonset Business Park for wind turbine maintenance technicians are on hold, with British company GEV Group saying it may not be able to hire the 123 workers required as part of previously awarded state tax credits. The jobs and training facility are intended to support a growing offshore wind industry, beyond the Block Island Wind Farm, pictured above. / COURTESY ORSTED U...

Daily News staff Are you ready for another election? Voters across Rhode Island will once again be returning to the polls on March 2 to cast their ballots in a special election to determine the fate of seven state bond questions. Heres what you need to know ahead of the vote. KEY DATES Feb. 9 — Deadline to Submit Mail Ballot Applications    Feb. 10 — Early In-Person Voting Begins March 1 — Early In-Person Voting Period Ends March 2 — Special Refernda Election; Polls Open BALLOT...

When the coronavirus came to Rhode Island nine months ago, Gov. Gina Raimondo thought it would be no big deal. "I definitely, definitely did not have a grasp at that time of what we were in for," Raimondo said Monday in an interview with The Providence Journal. "In the early days, in the early weeks, we thought we could kind of put a lid on it pretty early. No one in those early weeks was saying to me, hey guv, you better shut everything down immediately and by the way were going to be dealing...