EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School football team opened up league play on Friday night, Sept. 15, against Division I rival Cranston East. In the end it was the Thunderbolts who … more

BRISTOL — The Mt. Hope High School football team shut out Division I East Providence, 13-0, in a non-league home game on Friday night. Running backs Josh Pompey and Dylan Martins led the … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — On an afternoon marked by a solemn remembrance of 9/11, the East Providence High School girls’ soccer team, the reigning Division III champions, thoroughly outclassed neighbor … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — A compromise deal proposed by the new owners of Agawam Hunt to remediate the debts of the financially strapped golf and tennis club in Rumford owes the city, in golf parlance, never … more

TIVERTON — In front of an intermittently raucus audience of 85 people in Town Hall Thursday night, the Tiverton Town Council voted 4-2 to replace Joan Chabot with Denise deMedeiros as town council president more

TIVERTON — The unseating of Joan Chabot as Town Council President may be on the table for discussion and possible action at a special meeting of the Tiverton Town Council tonight, Thursday, September 7, at 7 p.m in Town Hall. After the call to order, the council will address the single agenda item: "For discussion and possible action on Town Council Governance and Leadership. more

EAST PROVIDENCE — East Providence Police, with assistance from Providence officers, arrested a 55-year-old man in connection with a burglary in city Sunday afternoon, Aug. 27. William W. Phipps, … more

PROVIDENCE — Leader of the Pokanokets, Sagamore William Guy, spoke to reporters at the entrance of the Brown University Green on Prospect St. after leading the tribe from Hope High School into … more

The East Providence High School girls’ volleyball team prepped for the start of its 2017 season by hosting Mount St. Charles in the annual Injury Fund scrimmage last week on Carvalho Court at the … more

PAWTUCKET — The East Providence High School football team beat Tolman, 14-0, in a two-quarter injury fund game at Max Read Field on Friday night. Running backs Juan Diaz and Dion Hazard each scored … more

TIVERTON — Portsmouth High School beat Barrington 8-0 in a two-quarter game at the Injury Fund tournament in Tiverton on Thursday night. Portsmouth quarterback Kyle Bicho executed a drive from the … more

LITTLE COMPTON — The Town of Little Compton goes to Superior Court this Thursday at 10 a.m. to try to get an injunction to stop what it calls a private commercial parking lot from operating at 5 Ocean Drive, just a few hundred yards up the road from South Shore Beach. The parking lot is located on 1.79 acres of private property. For weeks, especially this summer and last, but going back to 2012, neighbors have complained about a large number of cars — on one occasion, by police count, as many as 130-150 — that park on or in front of the property. more

It was back to school for Bristol-Warren students on Wednesday morning. At Colt Andrews School, kindergarten students were getting their name tags and beginning their school careers. Also, PTO … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — A second City Councilor has issued a press release related to the matter of the alleged surreptitious recordings made of Council President/Major Jim Briden, Ward 4 representative … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — On Saturday, Aug. 26, Ward 3 Councilman Joe Botelho issued the following press release on the matter of the “secret recordings” made of Council President and Mayor Jim Briden, … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — A pair of blistering audio recordings emerged Thursday, Aug. 24, on YouTube of Council President and Mayor Jim Briden apparently denigrating both the city’s teachers and his … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — A city woman was struck and killed during a hit-and-run accident Monday evening, Aug. 21, at the intersection of Roger Williams and Newport Avenues in Rumford. The East … more

PROVIDENCE — Plenty of players with East Bay ties, seven to be exact, were among the core that propelled the LaSalle Academy baseball team this spring to its first Rhode Island Interscholastic … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — Celebrating three decades of anything is pretty special, so as the Sundaes Ice Cream Shops, owned and operated by the Schneider family of East Providence, recognizes the … more

LITTLE COMPTON— Surfers headed in as the general public was ushered out by police at South Shore Beach in Little Compton on Wednesday. Hurricane Gert forming into a category 2 storm off the eastern … more

TIVERTON — The end came quietly for the 64-year-old motoryacht Ray Pat Monday on Tiverton’s Nanaquaket Pond. The moored 42-foot 1953 wooden Chris Craft settled 15 feet to the muddy bottom … more

They may look tough, but a group of laborers from Bristol’s CB Utility proved themselves to be a bunch of softies Tuesday when they boosted the spirits of a young Water Street man just when he … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — A city man was struck and killed by a motor vehicle while riding his bicycle on Willett Avenue in Riverside on Monday evening, Aug. 14. East Providence Police announced Tuesday … more

Louis Del Sesto is dreading the arrival of Sept. 5. The owner of Ecig Shed on Maple Avenue said his business will be destroyed by the town council's new ordinance, which, in part, raises the … more

EAST PROVIDENCE — Thankfully, the threat of inclement weather never materialized, leaving the third edition of "the looff: East Providence Arts Festival," sponsored by the East Providence Arts … more