‘Microforest’ takes root amid city streets of Providence reflecting worldwide trend. “As more and more people see it they’ll be inspired,” said Jeff Matteis of the Pearl Street Garden Collective. “It’s just like one little point but it just radiates benefits out.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/27/m...

RIPTA’s sweeping bus service reductions are coming on Saturday. Here’s what riders should know. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/m...

Goodbye suitcases. Hello moving boxes. A former Sheraton hotel in Warwick got a new lease – or leases – on life Thursday as local and state leaders cheered the transformation of the one-time tourist lodging at 1850 Post Road into a 190-unit apartment complex. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/m...

A person in their 60s from Providence County contracted Rhode Island’s first probable human case of West Nile virus this year, according to health officials. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/m...

A Rhode Island deputy sheriff was arrested on Sept. 16 after he allegedly took photos of a woman without her consent while she was inside a Starbucks restroom on Johnson & Wales University’s Providence campus, authorities said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

Three people were hospitalized on Thursday after a Rhode Island Public Transit Authority bus rolled onto its side when the driver lost control of the vehicle at the end of the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge in Jamestown, authorities said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

A teacher’s assistant at an elementary school in Cranston, R.I., was arrested after he allegedly injured a student when he grabbed him by the neck, according to police. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

The men’s rugby team at the University of Rhode Island has been suspended for the current academic year after an investigation into a hazing allegation over the summer, university officials said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

International flights to return to R.I.’s TF Green airport in 2026 with Breeze Airways service to Cancun. Despite its name, Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport has had sporadic international offerings. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

🎙️R.I. health leaders set the record straight on Tylenol, vaccines and autism. On the #RIReport podcast, RWU’s Jacquline Cottle and RI Public Health Institute’s Amy Nunn weigh in on public health matters ranging from COVID-19 shots to measles outbreaks to food dyes www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/m...

Judge Smith: “States rely on these grants for billions in disaster relief & public safety funds that cannot be replaced by state revenues. Denying such funding if states refuse to comply with vague immigration requirements leaves them with no meaningful choice.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

“Cambridge is not all it’s cracked up to be,” said Frank Menniti of incoming lab member MindImmune Therapeutics. “The quality of the science, the quality of the academics, is every bit as good as it is in Boston.” @chrisgavin.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

Even before scientists start putting their work under microscopes, Ocean State Labs, RI’s first life science incubator, came into focus on Wednesday as lab leaders and state officials unveiled five inaugural companies who will begin work there early next year. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

R.I. coastal council votes to enforce order to tear down country club’s illegal seawall. CRMC staff concludes Quidnessett Country Club “deliberately, willfully” violated regulations and “do not intend to comply with the council’s order to restore.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/24/m...

In Warwick, federal Reserve chairman warns: ‘No risk-free path’ amid cooling job market, inflation From @shurufu.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/m...

ICYMI: Cases against a bank manager and her boyfriend who were accused of being a part of a “sophisticated” heist that lifted nearly a half-million dollars from a Federal Hill bank in 2023 have been dismissed, court filings show. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/m...

On Monday, police arrested 13 students after four separate fights at Woonsocket High School, and another student at Hamlet Middle School was arrested after he was allegedly found with pepper spray, authorities said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/m...

A pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle on Interstate 95 in Providence on Monday night, authorities said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/23/m...

Just in: A federal judge on Monday sided with developers of the Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island, allowing construction of the wind farm to continue for now despite a stop-work order issued by the Trump administration last month. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/m...

With executive order, Providence mayor reaffirms that city police will not assist ICE www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/m...

A “gust of wind” lifted the right wing of a small plane in the moments before it crashed while the pilot tried to land on Block Island in July, killing one passenger and injuring two other people aboard, according to a preliminary report by the NTSB. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/m...

Is R.I. Attorney General Neronha running for governor? "I’ll know by the first week of October," he told @fitzprov.bsky.social. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/m...

The ACLU of RI says the investigation of a Barrington teacher’s Kirk remarks reflects "disturbing" trend of "speech suppression." “Core political speech must be defended most fiercely when it is controversial, because that is precisely when it is most at risk." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

New England teachers are being placed on leave for posts on Charlie Kirk’s death. What are their First Amendment rights? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

A nephew of Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez has lost his appeal challenging the 22-and-a-half-year federal prison sentence he received last year for running a large, illicit multi-state fentanyl drug operation. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m...

As R.I. navigates delays and cuts to FEMA money, uncertainty remains. In the midst of this hurricane season, it's still "business as usual" -- but next year is unknown, says Rhode Island's EMA director. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m...

🎙️#RIReport podcast: Losing the Revolution Wind project would be ‘devastating,' RWU professor says. “We need reliable power,” Roger Williams University engineering professor Maija Benitz said. “And we need power, too, that’s not damaging to the environment.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/18/m...

New court filings shed some light on the federal government’s decision last month to halt the Revolution Wind project off the coast of Rhode Island. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/m...

"The time to act is right now." A new report details how Providence can combat its "housing emergency." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/m...

R.I. won’t give Trump administration voter registration list with personal data. @risecstate.bsky.social said the Trump administration “has a long track record of seeking to, and in some cases, succeeding in, interfering in the operation of elections." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

RIPTA will receive more than $500,000 to expand on-demand service, pilot a vanpool subsidy program, and promote public transit to tourists as part of an effort to meet the state’s climate goals, Governor Dan McKee announced on Monday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

SCOOP: At least 19 employees at Rhode Island’s recently merged public media organization were granted voluntary buyouts as the nonprofit outlet scrambles to close a $1.1 million budget hole. via @bostonglobe.com @globeri.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

Breaking: The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Providence public schools today, arguing its loan forgiveness program for educators of color is "blatant race discrimination." The feds previously disclosed they were investigating this back in March.

Bally’s proposes selling R.I.’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort in leaseback deal www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...

NEW: More than three years after legalization, you can finally apply to open a recreational cannabis store in Rhode Island Deadline: Dec. 29 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

A man was arrested after he allegedly threatened a Cumberland school employee during student drop-off at an elementary school on Monday morning, according to authorities. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

Ninety-three percent of Rhode Islanders see the cost of housing in the Ocean State as a problem, with about a quarter reporting falling behind on rent or mortgage payments in the last three years, according to a new poll from the University of Rhode Island. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

Just in: State Rep. @davidmoralespvd.bsky.social officially launched his run for Providence mayor in a social media video, challenging Brett Smiley in the Democratic primary next year www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

Following Massachusetts, Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee announced Friday the state is requiring health insurers to cover the cost of COVID vaccines for all patients over the age of 6 months, establishing continued access to booster shots ahead of the fall season www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/m...

A Barrington High School teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave after saying assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk was “a piece of garbage” and remarking “bye Charlie” in a widely circulated TikTok video. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/m...

Breaking: Following Massachusetts, RI Gov. McKee announces the state is now requiring health insurers to cover COVID-19 vaccines.

BREAKING: Providence’s NBC10 will take over ABC6, reshaping TV market in Southeastern New England w/ @stephmachado.bsky.social via @globeri.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/m...

BREAKING: NBC10 will take over ABC6, in a major upheaval for the Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts media market. w/ @alexagagosz.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/m...

Check out the latest from @chrisgavin.bsky.social in @bostonglobe.com, highlighting AG Neronha’s August letter urging state leaders to align our transportation planning with our climate goals. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

R.I. maps next 10 years of transportation improvement funding Some, including the state Attorney General, however, say the State Transportation Improvement Program falls short of meeting the state’s climate goals www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

An 18-year-old man in North Smithfield, R.I. suffered serious burns after he set himself on fire while reenacting a video he saw on social media, according to authorities. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

@billkole.bsky.social reacted to the shooting of Charlie Kirk, saying, “Gun violence of any kind and political violence of any kind has no place in the US. Full stop.” He said he disagreed with most of what Kirk had to say. “But he had every right to say it." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

NEW: Deloitte has agreed to settle a series of class-action lawsuits filed by people impacted by the cyberattack on RI’s benefits system last year No details yet until approved by a judge, buts it’s expected to provide some sort of compensation for the 650,000+ people affected

A skiing accident left a R.I. PhD candidate paralyzed. But he’s still exploring shipwrecks – and probing the "unknown." My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...

Private equity ownership of opioid treatment programs has not improved access or decreased deaths, Brown University study finds www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/11/m...