WESTERLY — Principals and other administrators have mapped out a plan for improving student performance on the Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System (RICAS) test after results released in October showed declines in nearly all categories at each district school it was given.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — The University of Rhode Island is revoking honorary degrees bestowed upon two once-prominent advisers to former President Donald Trump: retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer Jeff Frank doesn’t feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it’s an apt way to describe him, even if he laughs at the idea.
Women have assumed leadership positions throughout the Navy, so it was only fitting that a woman for the first time Friday took command of the U.S.S. Constitution — the Navy's most historic vessel.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Just days after the director of Rhode Island's Department of Health announced her resignation, the agency's deputy director announced that he, too, is leaving.
Editor’s note: With the pandemic’s restrictions greatly reduced or lifted, most businesses and service agencies have returned to regular operations. Here is a list of organizations that still have restricted operations or reduced hours.
WESTERLY — The town is receiving 3,600 COVID-19 home test kits that will be distributed to residents in the community beginning Friday as part of a federal effort to curb the latest wave of coronavirus infections.
WESTERLY — Teachers and their supporters took to the podium Wednesday as part of the ongoing struggle to come up with contract terms that are acceptable to both the educators and the School Committee.
Rhode Island's governor submitted a $12.8 billion state budget plan to the General Assembly on Thursday that seeks to address the pandemic, build more affordable housing, invest in schools and help businesses.
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's unemployment rate dropped to 4.8% in December, down three-tenths of a percentage point from the November rate but higher than the national rate of 3.9%, the state Department of Labor and Training said Thursday.
A Rhode Island man who authorities say fled the U.S. and faked his death to evade prosecution for rape and financial fraud has been arrested after skipping his court date in Scotland, police said Thursday.
WESTERLY — The town planner, members of the Planning Board, and residents are raising concerns about the size and scope of a project planned for the former St. Pius X School property on Elm Street. Some board members, though, said they were glad the plans called for reuse of an old building …
NEW YORK (AP) — A new study in two states that compares coronavirus protection from prior infection and vaccination concludes getting the shots is still the safest way to prevent COVID-19.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee on Wednesday proposed spending more than $150 million during the next fiscal year on several initiatives intended to address threats to the state from climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two women have been arrested on charges of entering a restricted building, disorderly conduct, and demonstrating related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, the FBI said.
Construction will soon begin on the second commercial-scale, offshore wind energy project to gain approval in the United States, the developers said.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An inmate at the Adult Correctional Institutions is suing the state Department of Corrections because it has sanctioned him for his hair style, which he says is based on his religious beliefs.
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WESTERLY — Plans for a 24-hour, self-serve laundromat on Friendship Street are moving forward.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Two more House Democrats announced Tuesday they won't seek reelection in November, bringing the party's total retirements to 28 ahead of what is expected to be a difficult midterm election year.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — While the pandemic continues to dominate the conversation, Rhode Island’s governor said in his first-ever State of the State address Tuesday that it’s time to start looking to the future.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence, Rhode Island's first homicide victim of 2022 was identified by police on Tuesday as a resident of Maine.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man injured in a fire at a Providence apartment complex over the weekend has died of complications from smoke inhalation, fire officials said.
While it wasn't a snowy start to the week in Westerly, there was a lot of storm-related news across the East Coast. Here's a look at some of the Associated Press coverage from the storm:
WESTERLY — Preliminary plans for a proposed housing project that would include conversion of the former St. Pius X School property into an apartment building, construction of a new apartment building and construction of two houses on the same property will go for review before the Planning B…
PORTLAND, Maine — China is showing no signs of slowing its demand for American lobster this year despite disruption to the supply chain and international trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
WESTERLY — Tragedy struck a Massachusetts family over the weekend when a 26-year-old mother who worked as an Amtrak conductor was killed after slipping and falling from a moving train that was approaching the Westerly station. Now, communities throughout southern New England are stepping up …
PROVIDENCE — The average cost for a gallon of gasoline is down a penny this week and officials said stable post-holiday prices could prove good news for motorists in the coming weeks.
PROVIDENCE — Dozens of arts, culture, heritage and historic sites across Rhode Island are getting almost $3.5 million in help from the state government for renovation, repair and program expansion projects, officials say.
WESTERLY — Rory Douthit and Sam Agnello Jr. have been friends since they were kids with summer jobs in Watch Hill. Today the two men are business partners and have opened a Main Street restaurant on the river in downtown Westerly that has become the talk of the town.
WESTERLY — A 26-year-old Massachusetts woman who was working as an Amtrak train conductor was killed Saturday afternoon when police said she fell off a train as it was pulling into the Westerly train station.
School Committee members worried about reduction in town, state aid as work starts on 2022-23 budget
WESTERLY — Concerns with the potential level of financial support from the town and the state will hang over the School Committee as it develops a proposed education budget for 2022-23.
Introducing kids to cooking can be more than fun. It can teach skills and perhaps set children up to be healthier eaters.
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PROVIDENCE — House Speaker Pro Tempore Brian Patrick Kennedy (D-Dist. 38, Hopkinton, Westerly) has introduced legislation to curtail the growing threat of the online sale of counterfeit and stolen goods, which has become a $509 billion criminal enterprise.
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WESTERLY — The architectural firm working on a school building project is nearing completion of an existing conditions report and anticipates meeting with administrators and possibly with students next week.
WESTERLY — The Town Council will soon consider signing off on a request to hire a consultant to monitor the distribution of federal COVID-19 relief funds and how the funds are used.
Rhode Island's top public health official, who has guided the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic, is resigning, Gov. Dan McKee said in a statement Thursday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A panel voted Wednesday to approve new voting districts for the state legislature and congressional seats in Rhode Island, with a last-minute change.
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) — Bill Belisle, a Rhode Island high school hockey coach who led Mount Saint Charles Academy to 32 state championships in more than four decades at the helm and had more than 20 players drafted by NHL teams, has died, according to the school.
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island has opened an investigation into the North Kingstown School Department after student-athletes filed a complaint that the high school violated students’ civil rights by allowing a former boys’ basketball coach t…
WESTERLY — Members of the Planning Board and the Economic Development Commission engaged directly this week with a consultant hired to help develop a plan for transforming the town's Route 1 corridor into a more economically productive and aesthetically pleasing stretch of roadway with a mor…
Distrust, misinformation and delays because of the holidays and bad weather have combined to produce what authorities say are alarmingly low COVID-19 vaccination rates in U.S. children ages 5 to 11.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — One man died and two other people were injured in a three-vehicle wrong-way crash on U.S. Route 1 in South Kingstown, police said Wednesday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island is trying to ease the staffing crunch at hospitals by deploying more National Guard members and making it easier for recent nursing graduates to get temporary emergency licenses so they can join the workforce, Gov. Daniel McKee said Wednesday.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Ethics Commission has voted to dismiss a complaint filed by the state Republican Party against Democratic Gov. Dan McKee's former chief of staff.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A sixth person has pleaded guilty to playing a role in a scheme that cheated banks in multiple states out of $2.4 million by obtaining and attempting to obtain car loans using stolen identities, federal prosecutors said.
WESTERLY — The Town Council is requesting an advisory opinion from the Planning Board on its plans to sell the former Bradford School property with an eye toward finding a buyer willing to develop the property for housing for senior citizens.
A mass of arctic air swept into the Northeast on Tuesday, bringing bone-chilling sub-zero temperatures and closing schools across the region for the second time in less than a week.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major Rhode Island teachers union is calling on school districts across the state to switch to remote learning for at least the next week as a wave of new coronavirus infections has left many schools understaffed.