Rhode Island Nonprofits – Reminder to Meet Your Sales Tax Exemption Filing Deadline

Rhode Island nonprofits holding sales tax exemption certificates are reminded to file their renewal applications before the upcoming deadlines to maintain their tax-exempt status and comply with updated requirements. Sales tax exemption certificates issued …

Bishop Hendricken Alum Kyle Ciquera Returns to Rhode Island for MLR Championship with Free Jacks

Saturday’s Major League Rugby championship game will be a de-facto home game for the New England Free Jacks. They traveled an hour to Pawtucket to face the Houston SaberCats. It’s a game that will be very close to home for Free Jacks Prop Kyle Ciquera, who …

Rhode Island targets Taylor Swift with new tax bill — days after human remains found near her mansion where she hopes to ...

Rhode Island 'Taylor Swift Tax' (Getty Images) Just as Taylor Swift was preparing to turn her $17 million Watch Hill mansion into a dream family home with Travis Kelce, Rhode Island lawmakers are considering introducing a new tax bill that could …

Chorus of Westerly founder George Kent remembered as ‘Rhode Island’s music man’

George Kent, founder and longtime music director of the Chorus of Westerly, died June 17 at age 88. Kent also served as organist and choirmaster at Christ Church in Westerly for nearly 60 years, and was a former assistant conductor of the Rhode Island …

Behind the bills: Rhode Island’s new gun control law and student cell phone ban

On today’s show we look at two significant bills signed into law this week by Gov. Dan McKee. First, a ban on the sale and manufacture of assault-style weapons. How effective are bans like this at actually tackling the problem of gun violence? A national …

Will Rhode Island-related NBA players take a step forward next season?

TGIF: Ian Donnis’ Rhode Island politics roundup for June 27, 2025

Enjoy summer while we can — it will be gone in a flash. You can follow me through the week on Bluesky, threads and X. A quick program note: I’m taking some time off, so this column will next appear on July 18. Here we go.  *** Want to get my column in your …

University of Rhode Island announces plan to reopen W. Alton Jones Campus

Published on Friday, June 27, 2025 Under an agreement approved Friday by the URI Board of Trustees, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management will invest in critical infrastructure and natural resource protection, enabling the campus to …

New law will ban cat declawing in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island will soon join its neighboring states in banning cat declawing. A newly passed law that takes effect on Sept. 1 will make it illegal for veterinarians to surgically remove a cat’s claws or “alter a cat’s toes, claws …

Rhode Island State Police will host a graduation ceremony 16 new troopers

(WJAR) — The Rhode Island State Police Department will host a graduation ceremony on Friday. It is a ceremony for 16 new Troopers who have completed the Training Academy. The ceremony begins at 11am at CCRI's Lincoln campus.