PROVIDENCE, RI The R.I. State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and the Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (DEDI) are hosting two free webinars on Friday, May 26, for Rhode Island arts businesses interested in being certified as Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and/or Women-Owned Business...
PROVIDENCE, RI Governor Dan McKee and RIHousing today announced the award of more than $101 million in funding to support the construction and preservation as well as operating costs of over 1,400 units of housing across Rhode Island. Of the 1,481 units, over 1,200 will be affordable housing....
PROVIDENCE, RI Governor Dan McKee today announced that he has selected Jonathan Womer as his nominee to serve as the next Director of the Department of Administration (DOA). Womer will replace Brian Daniels, who has served as Acting DOA Director since April following the departure of James E....
PAWTUCKET, RI Governor Dan McKee and Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien today signed the Learn365RI Municipal Compact.
"I believe every Rhode Islander has a role to play in helping to improve educational outcomes for children across the state and I thank Mayor Don Grebien and the City of...
PROVIDENCE, RI Governor Dan McKee today announced his appointments to the Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission. The commission will oversee the regulation, licensing and control of adult use and medical cannabis in the Ocean State. The Governor will send these three names to the Rhode Island...
PROVIDENCE, RI Governor Dan McKee, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Representative David Cicilline, Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Liz Tanner, and SkillsRI Executive Director Nina Pande announced today the opening of small business applications for the RI Rebounds Technical...
On Friday, May 19 the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) is scheduled to shift travel lanes to the right in both directions around a construction zone in the center of the Farnum Pike (Route 104) bridges over I-295 in Smithfield.
The bridges one over I-295 North and the other...
PROVIDENCE, RI Governor Dan McKee today announced his appointment of current Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities & Hospitals (BHDDH) Director Richard Charest to serve as the next Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS). The Governor...
Providence, R.I. With her original poem, Birdfolk at the End of the World, Classical High School junior Natasha B. Connolly won the 2023 companion competition to Poetry Out Loud, Poetry Ourselves.
Connolly traveled to Washington, D.C., on May 9 and May 10 to compete in the NEA's Poetry Out...
The week of May 15, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will implement traffic pattern changes and lane closures on city streets in Providence related to the ongoing $265 million Providence Viaduct Northbound Project. The changes will affect sections of Smith Street and Park...
