In Providence on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Patricia A. Sullivan ordered 51-year-old Robert Consorti, of Wilmington, Mass., detained as Consorti was arraigned on charges from a superseding indictment returned by a grand jury last week, according to the court filings.

Providence Mayor Brett Smiley will announce the city's plan Thursday to transition Providence Public Schools back to the city's control, according to a statement from Smiley's office.

Alcantara, is now facing a decade behind bars after being sentenced yesterday in Boston's federal court. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the 38-year-old was the leader of a drug trafficking operation that distributed fentanyl across Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Some cities have jumped at the chance to crack down on encampments after the Supreme Court paved the way for penalties last year.

Steven Howitt, a Massachusetts state representative from ... Seekonk is an across-the-border slice of Rhode Island, basically a Providence suburb. State line? What state line?

The Massachusetts State Lottery announced that a Plymouth man won a $1 million prize from its instant ticket game.

BOSTON (WWLP) – A man from Providence was sentenced in Boston Federal Court for leading a drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The top five Rhode Island high schools for students who want to get into those top universities include three public high schools and two private. Nationwide, schools on the list had up to 32 students from the class of 2024 go on to Harvard, Princeton or MIT.

Tesla vehicles at a Massachusetts store were vandalized again, adding to a series of incidents across the state targeting the automaker in recent months.

A New England entrepreneur has been identified as the first American killed in a catastrophic roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic that has claimed 184 lives. The incident occurred while a band performed onstage at the Jet Set Club in Santo Domingo,