Learning Community charter school awarded $50K grant for Accelerated Learning Lab
CENTRAL FALLS – The Learning Community charter school announced it received a $50,000 grant from the Simon W. Wardwell Foundation for its Accelerated Learning...
Children’s Friend holiday drive supports over 1,500 Rhode Island children
PROVIDENCE – Children’s Friend reports that its annual Spirit of Giving Holiday Drive distributed essential items to more than 1,500 children across Rhode Island...
Delta Dental Loan Repayment Program completes first round of awards
PROVIDENCE – Delta Dental of Rhode Island’s Dentist Loan Repayment Program has completed its first round of awards since launching in 2025.
The program was...
Brown to add security cameras following December shooting
PROVIDENCE – Brown University's new interim vice president for public safety outlined sweeping security enhancements Tuesday following the mass shooting last month that killed...
State’s highest-paid employees include URI coaches, president
PROVIDENCE – Workers at a college, hospital and a prison are among Rhode Island's highest-paid state employees.
They include a pair of University of Rhode...
How Trump-era work requirements could impact people who receive public benefits
The Trump administration made work requirements for people with low incomes receiving government assistance a priority in 2025.
The departments of Health and Human Services,...
Does Brown University need to upgrade campus security in the wake of the Dec....
Brown University’s head of public safety is on administrative leave following the Dec. 13 mass shooting that killed two students and injured nine others.
University...
CCRI participating in new MIT manufacturing initiative
PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island has linked up with a program launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology designed to boost...
Brown University police chief placed on leave pending campus safety review
Brown University’s head of public safety is now on administrative leave as the Ivy League school undergoes two outside reviews of its security practices...
Motive still unknown after suspect in the Brown attack and MIT professor’s killing is...
A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man...
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