STORY OF THE WEEK: Back in the day, the approach of the end of February would signal the time for the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies – the bygone annual satiric sendup of the year in Rhode … more

Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos, the RI Blue Star Moms, the RI National Guard, Operation Stand Down RI, the United States Postal Service, the American Red Cross of RI, other community organizations, … more

The Cranston Police Department wrapped up this year’s holiday gift operation. In a post on their Facebook page Friday, the department sent out a message of gratitude. “We would like to … more

More than 4,000 locations will open to collect Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts for the Samaritan's Purse project. Volunteers are preparing to collect shoebox gifts during National Collection Week, Nov. 15-22, offering a curbside option. Operation more

When Nicole O’Brien’s husband, a member of the U.S. Air Force, deployed to Japan 10 years ago, she and her children stayed with her parents in Rhode Island while they waited to go … more

View from above U.S. Special Operations Forces members exit a C130J Super Hercules during a high-altitude low-opening parachute jump April 7 above a drop zone in Rhode Island. HALO operations are jumps made with an exit altitude of up to 35,000 feet mean more