Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a proposed $55.5 billion state budget on Wednesday – a plan that increases spending by more than 4% over the current fiscal year and offers insight into the Democrat’s priorities during her first year as the state’s chief executive.… MORE
Heavy snow bookended the United States on Tuesday, with a late-season storm bringing a messy morning commute to the Northeast and leaving California residents to dig out, or in some cases simply wait for help, after yet another storm.… MORE
After two weak storm systems clipped the Northeast this past weekend, AccuWeather forecasters warn that a larger, more impactful system is on the way, and will begin impacting the region late Monday. A second major storm is slated to arrive at the end of the week.… MORE
Three men have been sent to prison for their roles in a so-called grandparent scam that cheated more than a dozen Rhode Island residents between the ages of 79 and 94 out of more than $300,000 combined, federal prosecutors said.… MORE
Gov. Maura Healey unveiled a sweeping $742 million tax relief proposal Monday that she said would provide savings for families, renters, seniors, farmers, commuters and others.… MORE
Two people died in an early morning fire Friday that heavily damaged a home in Cranston’s Garden City neighborhood.… MORE
A man who admitted to having more than 665,000 counterfeit Adderall pills containing methamphetamine has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.… MORE
The Democrat, who is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Committee on the Judiciary, was named president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, effective June. 1.… MORE
The 20th anniversary of the Station Nightclub fire that claimed 100 lives was a low-key event that brought a steady stream of people to the West Warwick park that rose from the ashes of one of the nation’s deadliest fires.… MORE
Leaders of the Rhode Island General Assembly have settled a lawsuit in which Republicans challenged the Democrats control of the committee that oversees legislative operations.… MORE
