Rhode Island Social Blog

Rhode Island’s health insurance commissioner has rejected a request by Blue Cross & Blue Shield to hike its premiums on people who buy their own insurance and ordered the company to charge 1.1 percent less.

Detachment 23 Operation Support Airlift Command will leave from the Quonset Air National Guard Base in North Kingstown on Friday.

Central Falls native and now Oscar nominee Viola Davis started her career right here in Rhode Island and no one is happier about her best actress nominations more than her sister.

On the eve of a plea hearing with the reputed former mob boss of the New England crime family, the lawyer for one accused mob associate is sending signals they too may be close to an agreement with federal prosecutors.

A car has crashed into a Providence home on the corner of Butler Ave. and Waterman St.

Providence police say a series of shootings and weapons arrests in the city since November is the result of an ongoing feud between local Asian gangs.

The West Warwick Town Council voted Tuesday night to table councilman Ed
Giroux’s ordinance that would charge taxpayers a fee each time the fire department responds to an emergency.

The man the Feds say used to run the New England mob, is expected to admit to a federal racketeering charge Wednesday.

Rhode Island’s governor has announced the creation of a commission to oversee the planning of next year’s
350th anniversary celebration of the signing of the state’s charter.

Some Providence students had the surprise of a lifetime when they had an unexpected meeting with the First Lady.