Earlier this year, as part of his department’s “Freedom to Drive” initiative, which aims to lessen the time Americans spend “staring at a car bumper,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked states to single out their most congested roadways. An unfinished plan to directly connect Route 4 and Interstate 95 in all directions was at […]

By Rhode Island standards, the Democratic primary for the lieutenant governor’s job is a packed one. Yet the five-candidate contest for the seat currently occupied by Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos has received somewhat scant attention, WPRI 12 politics editor Ted Nesi remarked to four of the candidates shortly before the cameras rolled on a debate […]

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 […]