With the sounds of the 2023 Newport Jazz Festival still echoing from the walls of Newport’s Fort Adams, the producers on Wednesday announced the dates for the 2024 Jazz and Folk Festivals.… MORE
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Shipping company ordered to pay $2.25M after discharging oily bilge off Rhode Island
The owner of a Greek oil tanker has been ordered by a U.S. judge to pay $2.25 million in fines and penalties after discharging oily bilge water into the ocean during a trans-Atlantic voyage and admitting to other environmental violations by its captain and chief engineer.… MORE
Most residents leave homeless encampment, move to nearby site
Most residents of a controversial homeless encampment in Providence left the site on Monday, some moving less than a mile away to a site in woods off a nearby highway.… MORE
New Tri-Town animal shelter opens for business
North Providence, Smithfield and Johnston will try a shared approach to caring for stray animals, as the three communities opened a new animal shelter Thursday.… MORE
Hasbro selling eOne television and movie business to Lionsgate in $500M deal
Hasbro is selling its eOne television and movie business to Lionsgate in an approximately $500 million deal, after having paid $4 billion for the company four years ago.… MORE
Connecticut moves to become the latest state to plan for zero-emissions cars by 2035
Connecticut joins Rhode Island, Maryland, New Jersey and New Mexico in announcing plans to adopt the new standards. … MORE
22 attorneys general including RI oppose 3M settlement over water systems contamination with 'forever chemicals'
Twenty-two attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject a proposed $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially dangerous chemicals, saying it lets manufacturer 3M Co. off too easily.… MORE
Aaron Hernandez brother faces new charges amid concerns over threats, visits to UConn, Brown
The older brother of late New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is behind bars after a woman close to him told police she was worried he was planning a school shooting.… MORE
McKee "free lunch" subject of ethics probe
Governor Dan McKee’s free lunch last January with a lobbyist and principals of a since-terminated would-be re-developer of the Cranston Street Armory is the subject of an investigation by the Rhode Island Ethics Commission.… MORE
$58M in federal grants aim to help schools, day care centers remove lead from drinking water
The Biden administration announced $58 million in grants to help schools and day care centers remove lead from drinking water during an event in Boston on Monday.… MORE
