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November 16, 2023
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, or IRIS, helps refugees and other displaced people establish a fresh start in Connecticut. Soon there will be new...
November 13, 2023
"I’m committed to keeping this fight going," said Providence City Councilor Miguel Sanchez, who was fired from his day job after calling for a cease-fire.
September 10, 2023
The City of Providence is declaring September 10 as “Edward Mitchell Bannister Day.”
May 25, 2023
From pop-ups at local breweries to farm-to-picnic dining on Block Island, these places are worth a visit.
October 11, 2022
There are more than 100,000 Rhode Islanders with some college credits, but no degree. The new Bachelor of Professional Studies (BPS), Rhode Island College’s first fully online degree completion program for adult learners, is built for them. The first BPS cohort launched last spring.
September 26, 2022
More than 200 family, friends, and officials joined together at the Michael S. Van Leesten Memorial Bridge in Providence for the official dedication on Sunday.
April 2, 2021
Expensive and Painful Cyber Attacks Right now it is Brown University -- in the past, it has been small towns in RI and hospital groups. The cyberattack has forced the school to shut some systems down — in an event that Brown is calling an “utmost priority.” Jack Wrenn, a fifth-year doctoral candidate, said that official information was still “frustratingly scant” as of Wednesday night. Wrenn provided a timeline as to what he understood transpired, and when the university community...