On Aug, 20, 1999, crowds streamed through the Providence Place mall, ready to celebrate the long-awaited opening day of the downtown shopping destination. On Thursday — exactly 27 years later — a much smaller and more muted celebration unfolded as the mall’s new owners gathered outside the first-floor Apple store to announce that they had […]
When Desalyn Swank applied to law school at University of Idaho, she said she made it clear she wanted to reform the state’s laws. Before her first year at law school ended, she already had. This year, the Idaho Legislature passed, and the governor signed, a bill she wrote to strengthen the state’s laws to […]
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 […]
A discarded cigarette butt has led to the arrest of a 41-year-old Woonsocket man accused of raping two women in separate attacks in Hopkinton and North Stonington, Connecticut, 21 years ago. Robert Czerwein was ordered held without bail Wednesday after his arraignment on two counts of first-degree sexual assault in 4th Division District Court for […]
Idaho state budget officials have an improved revenue outlook for the new fiscal year in a forecast released Monday. The Division of Financial Management revised its revenue forecast for Fiscal Year 2027, which began July1. The new forecast is just over $291.1 million, or 5.2% higher than what legislative budget writers predicted, according to the […]
Three weeks and a day out from the primary, Gov. Dan McKee has failed to narrow a 20-point gap with his Democratic gubernatorial challenger, Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a survey published Tuesday by The Pell Center at Salve Regina University finds. The poll of 857 likely primary voters echoes surveys by other organizations, which also showed […]
An “Aegean Breeze, a “Rhodes Island sangria,” the “Dirty Greek,” and “Aphrodite’s kiss.” Lagers from Greece, and red and white wines, too. These are some of the drinks on the menu now at Estiatorio Estiatorio Fili, a Greek restaurant in Providence’s Wayland Square. But its owner George Potsidis is planning for a September without libations. […]
A federal court order that blocked Rhode Island regulators from awarding cannabis retail licenses is now lifted, clearing the way for a new application process already underway. U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose on Friday dissolved the preliminary injunction she issued against the Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission on April 8 now that the state’s […]
Familiar arguments over opioids, infrastructure and who cares more about everyday Rhode Islanders dominated the first televised Democratic gubernatorial debate of the 2026 election cycle. Yet Gov. Dan McKee and his challenger, Helena Buonanno Foulkes, still managed to infuse their usual talking points with fresh insults during the hourlong forum, organized by NBC10 and Coastal […]
Former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi dominated discussion of the open seat on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. But a different applicant made headline news Wednesday as Gov. Dan McKee announced Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Luis Matos as his nominee for the state’s highest court. “I know his record of his decisions has been […]
