PAWTUCKET, RI — U.S. Senator Jack Reed today joined with the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien in announcing more than $5.6 million in newly awarded federal grants for bus facility upgrades and service improvements for Pawtucket. Reed, the Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation Housing and […]readmore
Providence, RI– September 6, 2016 – Brown University Head Basketball Coach Mike Martin will put rivalries aside and team up with other Division I basketball coaches and Rhode Island cancer patients and survivors in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 13 to urge Congress to make cancer a national priority. Joining hundreds of cancer-fighting advocates from […]readmore
RI – Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Director Janet Coit today announced that the State has filed a lawsuit against gasoline manufacturers to recover expenses associated with the cleanup of the gasoline additive Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether («MTBE»). The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court for […]readmore
The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography will host a Research Vessel Endeavor Open House at the Narragansett Bay Campus from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday, September 10, 2016, including tours of the ship, a touch tank for kids, and exhibits about Narragansett Bay, oceans, and marine life. Tours and exhibits […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, RI – Mayor Jorge Elorza today announced he is appointing former U.S. Army Colonel Michael Borg to serve as Director of the Department of Public Works. «Michael has spent his career leading complex operations when timely success is critical,» said Mayor Elorza. «I know that the experience he brings from the armed forces, combined […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, R.I.- Councilman Michael Correia (Ward 6) has released the following statement regarding an accident at the intersection of Leah and Fairview Streets that resulted in the death of a 21 year old dirt bike motorist on Saturday evening: «I am saddened by the untimely death of a young man killed on his dirt bike […]readmore
Providence, RI – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, and Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea today called for an end to unchecked corporate spending in elections at a roundtable discussion about federal campaign finance reform. The event, which was held at Save the Bay’s headquarters in Providence, was hosted […]readmore
RI – Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent, of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of Public Safety, announces that on Sunday, September 4, 2016, members of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force arrested a Providence man for Possession of 23.5 kilograms of narcotics and weapon charges. On September 4, 2015 at […]readmore
Rhode Island – El Alcalde de Providence Jorge Elorza estuvo desde tempranas horas de la mañana del martes, en el primer día de clases, en el garaje de autobuses escolares de la Compañía First Students para ver que todo funcionara como es debido. El Alcalde Elorza abordo un autobús junto a Chris Maher superintendente de […]readmore
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico 1. Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with a tropical wave located over eastern Caribbean have decreased since yesterday. Although strong winds, possibly to tropical storm force, could still be occurring in association with this system, development of the wave is unlikely while it moves westward […]readmore