Jamestown has a drinking water problem. Could it have been avoided?
This story is part of our series One Storm Away: How climate change is threatening drinking water on the Ocean State’s islands When Christina DiMeglio decided to move back home to Rhode Island in...
View ArticleTensions flare as Palestinian flag is raised at Providence City Hall
A Palestinian flag was raised on Friday at City Hall, but the flag-raising ceremony turned tense as a crowd of several dozen pro-Israel protestors attempted to drown out the speeches by making loud...
View ArticleButler Hospital workers picket in the rain and mud for higher wages, more staff
Workers at Butler Hospital began chanting, cheering and trudging in the mud out front of the psychiatric hospital at 6 a.m. Thursday morning and remained on strike by the end of the day. Members of...
View ArticleState board allows Jamestown residents with dry wells to connect to municipal...
The Rhode Island Water Resources Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow four Jamestown households to connect to the town’s water. The residents, who live just north of the Newport-Pell bridge...
View ArticleA new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England
Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But...
View ArticleHow Trump’s first 100 days reverberate at Brown University
April 30 marks the one-year anniversary since Brown University students packed up their pro-Palestinian encampment on the school’s Main Green. Students agreed to end the protest after school leaders...
View ArticleClimate change is threatening Prudence Island’s drinking water
This story is part of our series One Storm Away: How climate change is threatening drinking water on the Ocean State’s islands Nestled in the middle of Narragansett Bay, Prudence Island is home to a...
View Article‘No kings’: Rhode Island protesters rally against Trump in nationwide...
Hundreds of protesters rallied Saturday in Providence and towns across Rhode Island as part of a nationwide “day of action” against the Trump administration. In Providence, they marched at noon from...
View ArticleACLU affiliates sue to challenge student visa revocations in New England
The ACLU of Rhode Island, joined by other affiliates in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Puerto Rico, and law firm Shaheen & Gordon, has filed a class action lawsuit in federal court to...
View ArticleBrown University students tell school leaders ‘Do Not Comply’ with Trump...
In the first large protest at Brown University in months, more than 100 Brown University students poured onto the Main Green Friday to demand that school leaders refuse to comply with demands they...
View ArticleSmiley outlines tax increases for property owners
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley on Tuesday released his proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, which begins on July 1. “This year’s City budget was exceptionally difficult to balance,” he said....
View ArticleFederal government investigates Brown for civil rights violations
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has expanded its inquiry into Brown University for a Title VI Federal Rights Violation, according to a campus-wide email sent from Executive Vice...
View ArticleTrump administration targets Brown University with visa revocations
One student at Brown on a student visa and a “small number” of recent alumni on post-graduate student visas have had their visas revoked. That’s according to an email obtained by The Public’s Radio...
View ArticleHundreds at Brown University sign letter in support of free speech on campus
A group of 255 professors at Brown University have joined hundreds of alumni and other Brown community members in signing a letter addressed to university administrators underscoring their support for...
View ArticleTrump administration revokes visa for RISD student
According to a campus-wide announcement published Monday by Rhode Island School of Design President Crystal Williams, an undergraduate student has had their visa revoked. “A revocation of one’s...
View ArticleAdvocates push back against potential RIPTA hub sites
Advocates are pushing back against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) after its board introduced to the public a slimmed down list of potential new bus hub locations: the smaller lawn...
View ArticleDeportations and detainments are having a chilling effect at Brown
On a recent sunny day in early spring, the Brown University main green space was filled with students sun-bathing. It’s hard to imagine now, but this time last year, the university was a major hub of...
View ArticleLawyer for Fabian Schmidt says his client is in legal ‘limbo’ while held by ICE
A lawyer for a New Hampshire green card-holder who is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, says his client’s...
View ArticleAlawieh protest draws Brown University community members to Statehouse
Dozens of Rhode Islanders turned out at the Statehouse Monday night to protest the deportation of a Rhode Island kidney doctor detained at Logan Airport last week. Although it’s been a mostly quiet...
View ArticleJudge postpones hearing after feds deport Rhode Island doctor
A hearing has been postponed for a Rhode Island kidney transplant specialist employed by Brown University Medicine who was refused entry into the U.S. last week and flown out of the country. On...
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