Officer Mark Castiglione, 36, of Milford, appeared Friday in the Sixth District Court in Providence. He and and Renee E. Deans, 48, also of Milford, were each arrested on Dec. 28 by Rhode Island State Police on drug charges.

SouthCoast Wind is moving forward on other fronts. On Dec. 20, the Biden administration announced that the proposal had received approval from the federal government, making it the 11 th offshore wind project to get the green light from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

PROVIDENCE – As protesters gathered in the State House to decry government's response to the homelessness crisis, Gov. Dan McKee took the stage Tuesday night to tout the "progress" made on his watch in multiple arenas, from the successful launch of a professional Rhode Island soccer team to a drop in school absences.

Rhode Island police arrested four suspects who led law enforcement officials on a chase that stemmed from an armed robbery of a FedEx driver in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Officials say Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital are operating, but the state’s health care system does not have the capacity to absorb their patients if they were forced to close.

Michael Brier, 62, was accused of defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and other health insurers out of millions of dollars by billing them for services Recovery Connection Centers of America, Inc., did not provide.

Four people were arrested on Friday afternoon following a police chase in connection with the armed robbery of a FedEx driver in Harvard.

Four people were arrested in Providence after a pursuit on Jan. 10, 2025. (WLNE)PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Providence Police Department said it arrested four individuals Friday in connection with an armed robbery in Harvard.

A man from New York was sentenced in connection with shipping dozens of packages containing cocaine from Puerto Rico to different addresses throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

A New York man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for shipping “kilograms of cocaine” from Puerto Rico to New England via the U.S. Postal Service.

Will Richmond has worked in the journalism industry since 2022, starting out at the Chariho Times. He then spent 14 years at The Herald News in Fall River, Massachusetts, where he won awards for government and education coverage, before becoming the digital news editor in 2013.

In Massachusetts, one man creates custom clown shoes, and in Rhode Island, a nonprofit provides new sneakers for kids without housing.