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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The new owners of the Pawtucket Red Sox have finally put some meat on the bones of their proposal for a downtown Providence stadium – and they want $4 million a year from Rhode Island taxpayers to subsidize it. Team president...

Like many American cities, Providence has a downtown parking crater problem. About 70 acres of prime land in the central business district is occupied by surface parking. Surface parking lots are a plague on downtown Providence. Image: Greater City...

Any autopsy of the corpse identified as that of Providence public education in the near future will include recent developments involving the expansion of the Achievement First charter school by the Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education...

We’re trying something new with our State of the City coverage this year. We’ve reproduced Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s speech below and annotated his comments with context and links to help you better understand what the mayor said – and what he left out...

The novelty team behind Aqua Diao, a convenient solar-powered machine that extracts supply with ~ from air. Courtesy Art of Science Learning Invention Makes Water from Air Teams Show Off Ideas to Solve Drought Nine teams seeking innovative solutions...