Providence Police made four separate drug arrests Wednesday, seizing six handguns, two motor vehicles, large amounts of fentanyl and cocaine and more than $238,000 in cash.… MORE
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Providence earmarks $8.5M to fund a land bank
The City of Providence has launched a land bank to purchase and rehabilitate blighted lots, planning to acquire, hold and transfer underused vacant land.… MORE
Providence city worker is charged with peddling drugs
Providence Police have charged a city worker with distributing narcotics while on duty as an employee of the Department of Public Works.… MORE
Rhode Island mayor proposes $10M reparations spending plan
Providence’s mayor proposed spending $10 million in federal coronavirus pandemic aid on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training, small business development and other programs recently recommended by the city’s reparations commission.… MORE
Rhode Island reparations report suggests programs, not cash
A new report suggests ways Providence, Rhode Island, can atone for its extensive ties to the transatlantic slave trade and centuries of racism and discrimination by, among other things, establishing home repair funds, launching financial literacy programs and boosting aid to Black and Indigenous organizations.… MORE
Highway administrator tours Routes 6 & 10 project
The long-running, $410 million project to overhaul the highway interchange between Routes 6 and 10 through the Olneyville section of project got a visit Thursday from a top federal transportation official, as Stephanie Pollack talked up construction funded in the bipartisan infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden.… MORE
Lawmaker suspended from TikTok defends twerking video
A state senator in Rhode Island who was suspended from TikTok after posting a video in which she twerked while doing a handstand in a bikini says she has no regrets.… MORE
Providence crime declining, officials say
The mayor and police lay out crime statistics and say that crime is down in Providence.… MORE
Court appearance for suspended Providence policeman
A suspended Providence police officer appeared Friday in district court, where not guilty pleas were entered to misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges stemming from a State House confrontation with a political rival during an abortion rights rally last month.… MORE
Video: Police smash man's head to ground in parking arrest
Law enforcement officials in Rhode Island are looking into the conduct of two longtime Providence police officers shown on video smashing a handcuffed man’s face into the pavement over the weekend.… MORE
