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Want to know more about the Washington Bridge rebuild? There’s a video for that.

  • Nancy Lavin

If seeing is believing, the single foundation shaft resting on the bank of the Seekonk River below an open sky where the westbound Washington Bridge once loomed offers little reassurance. Nor does Gov. Dan McKee’s repeated promise that the replacement highway construction is progressing well, even ahead of schedule. Enter animation. The 2 minute and […]

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Argue all you want about the cause of climate change. The 911 calls still come.

  • Joe Broadmeadow

No one dials 911 to report climate change. They call because the water is over the doorsill. They call because a neighbor on the third floor, in an apartment with no air conditioning, stopped answering the door. They call because the road they were told to evacuate on is already under two feet of water. […]

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Washington Bridge closure lengthened East Bay ambulance trips, study finds

  • Alexander Castro

Ambulance trips from Rhode Island’s East Bay took about a minute longer in the first six months following the abrupt closure of the Washington Bridge’s westbound span on Dec. 11, 2023, according to a study in the July 2026 issue of the Rhode Island Medical Journal. The study examined a year’s worth of ambulance transports […]