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PROVIDENCE has announced the rates for its new community electricity aggregation program set to begin in May. / AP FILE PHOTO/JOHN ANTCZAK

Providence sets rates for community electricity aggregation program

Economic Activity 02/28/2023

PROVIDENCE – The city has announced the rates for its new community electricity aggregation program set to begin in May. The Providence Community Electricity Program...

State receives $26M in federal funding for public housing

Economic Activity 02/14/2023

PROVIDENCE – Housing authorities in 24 communities across the state will receive $26.3 million in federal funding through the Public Housing Capital Fund, U.S....

RIPTA receives $5M in federal Safe Streets funding

Government 01/30/2023

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority will receive $5 million to develop a Safe Streets action plan covering 29 communities across the state,...

6 R.I. communities reject cannabis sales; combined $1.4B in local school...

Elections 11/09/2022

PROVIDENCE – Voters in 25 Rhode Island communities Tuesday approved recreational cannabis sales, while another six rejected allowing pot businesses to set up in...

Report: Woonsocket City Council postpones vote on removing mayor

Government 09/28/2022

WOONSOCKET – The City Council postponed voting Tuesday on a resolution that would have removed Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt from office, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported. The...

Reed secures $12M for flood-prone properties

Uncategorized 07/07/2022

PROVIDENCE – U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced Thursday that $12 million in federal funding is available for flood-prone properties in East Providence, Middletown and...

Sweetspot Dispensary set to become state’s 4th medical marijuana facility

Government 06/10/2022

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A new medical marijuana compassion center is set to open in Rhode Island for the first time in eight years. Plant Based...

THE FORMER LIGHTHOUSE INN property is going to be demolished and a 5-acre property that it's located on will be divided into three lots, after the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, that it declined to move forward with any of the three bids to redevelop the site that were submitted to the state last year. / COURTESY GOOGLE STREET MAPS

DEM denies all 3 bids for Lighthouse Inn site, demolishing building

Economic Activity 03/31/2022

NARRAGANSETT – After first requesting proposals for the state-owned property in October last year, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced on Wednesday...