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PROVIDENCE — The city’s Office of Sustainability and Racial and Environmental Justice Committee on Friday released a "climate justice plan" that aims to reduce the city’s carbon footprint while taking into account the needs of low-income communities and communities of color.The city is working toward transitioning away from fossil fuels and aiming to [...]

One of the state's most prominent Democrats is calling on WLNE-TV to reconsider its decision to cut ties with Doreen Costa, who was recently named one of two honorary state chairs of President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign."I was very disappointed to learn of Representative Costa's firing by ABC6 due to her decision to serve as [...]

Currently a visiting assistant professor in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, she is the daughter of political refugees from the Vietnam War. A stay in her parents' homeland profoundly influenced her life's work.

As the governor's office sues to invalidate a law, tucked into the state budget, that gives the legislature sole control of regulations on marijuana, the third branch of government says it won't get between the other two.

Michael John Carley paints a portrait of a Moses Brown School where he didn't fit in.

In Narragansett Bay, much farther north than you might expect, the state has installed concrete "reef balls" to host tautog, black sea bass and scup. It's a sign — swimming being another one — that decades of work have improved the environmental health of the Upper Bay.

WASHINGTON — Alex Buchon carefully inserted a slim, credit-card-sized tool into the gently warmed glue holding a broken iPad together. Patiently, he sliced through the glue to separate the screen from the rest of the device, exposing its innards.The electronics technician needed to get inside to determine whether the device needed a new battery. If so, he wouldn't be able to get it from Apple — the company makes them available only to Apple dealers and Apple- [...]

Amazon, surprised at the outcome, had been considered the front-runner. The JEDI system will store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the U.S. military to use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning and fighting capabilities.

JOHNSTON — The police have recovered all four chalices that were stolen Tuesday from St. Rocco’s Church, but one has been broken into pieces to be sold for scrap, according to the police.A suspect, 63-year-old David Ferrara, is still at large, Johnston police said Saturday. He has a last known address of 1688 Westminster St., Apt. 1, in Providence, but is also known to hang out in Pawtucket, police said.The chalices were worth about $10,000, but had untold [...]