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Not your grandfather’s scrimshaw: Duke Riley engraves pollution scenes on ocean plastic
Artist Duke Riley uses discarded bottles of engine coolant, bleach and Gatorade to bend the rules of an artform that’s become illegal to practice using the customary whalebone. A piece...
Hisham Awartani joins Brown University students presenting divestment proposal to board members
Hisham Awartani, a Palestinian-American-British student who was paralyzed after being shot in the spine while visiting family in Vermont last year, was among a select group of students presenting a...
Outraged by Brown’s threats of discipline over protests, some professors call for reform
Brown University's president has apologized after an administrator sent letters threatening discipline to professors who took part in a pro-Palestinian encampment on the Rhode Island campus. But some faculty members...
Student protesters, administrators at Brown University reach deal to clear encampment
Pro-Palestinian activists agreed to clear the student-run encampment on the Main Campus Green at Brown University. In exchange, their school’s governing body has agreed to vote on a divestment measure...
Brown University Board won’t vote on divestment amid student hunger strike
Brown University president Christina Paxson is continuing to decline to bring forward proposals to divest the school’s endowment from companies protesters say perpetuate and profit from “human rights abuses in...
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Potential rebuild of key R.I. bridge could take two years, federal official says
Officials are considering how to repair a key Rhode Island bridge that was abruptly shut down in December due to structural issues. If the westbound portion of the bridge needs...
Jury finds Fall River cop guilty of covering up police station beating
Nicholas M. Hoar, a policeman with a long record of violent incidents during his four years of active duty, including a fatal police shooting in 2017, was found guilty of...
Brown University looks to repatriate over 80 native remains
The Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University wants to return the roughly 86 human remains in its collection to their rightful tribes of origin before transferring its full collection to Providence...
Vineyard Wind jobs report offers look into offshore wind industry employment
A jobs report submitted to Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources digs into data provided by Vineyard Wind’s contractors and provides some of the clearest employment figures yet, offering a significant...
Somerset approves tax cut to secure new offshore wind cable factory
A tax cut approved by a town meeting in Somerset Monday night clears the way locally for a project that politicians from Beacon Hill to the White House have heralded...
Why are we seeing more black sea bass in Rhode Island and Massachusetts?
A recent report shows that local landings of black sea bass are higher than ever before thanks in part to warming waters pushing the fish further north.
Ex-Fall River cop sentenced to prison in police brutality case
Former police officer Michael Pessoa will serve at least a year and a half in state prison after a jury convicted him of using excessive force and covering it up...
Work resumes on Vineyard Wind after union protest causes six-day delay
A picket by the International Longshoremen’s Association halted construction on America's first major offshore wind farm for nearly a week. The union accused the project’s developer, Vineyard Wind, of falling...
New Bedford longshoremen’s union extends protest against offshore wind developer
Members of a New Bedford longshoremen’s union are protesting over hiring decisions related to construction of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm.
New Bedford houses one of the oldest jails in the country. A new sheriff wants to close it
A former sheriff described the conditions at the jail "Dickensian" and groups have frequently called for its closure. Last week, just 15 days into his new role as Bristol County...
Family plans to sue Fall River police for fatal shooting of Anthony Harden
A letter Harden’s family sent to Fall River officials on Thursday questions the credibility of the police narrative of the shooting, calling attention to the “extremely suspicious” location of a...
Falsification charges against Fall River cop prompt calls to reinvestigate his past
The family of Larry Ruiz-Barreto wants the FBI to reinvestigate the police shooting that killed the 19-year-old after the officer involved was recently charged with filing false reports in another...
Group interrupts book reading in Providence with Nazi imagery
The Red Ink Community Library — a nonprofit library, reading room and organizing space in Providence’s Mt. Hope neighborhood — said the group interrupted an event celebrating the 174th anniversary...
Biden to send military personnel to help hospitals in Rhode Island as COVID-19 cases surge
Starting next week, 1,000 military medical personnel will begin arriving to help mitigate staffing crunches at hospitals across the country, including Rhode Island.
A Last Defense For Thousands Facing Eviction In R.I. And Mass. Will Expire This Weekend
The federal moratorium on evictions expires July 31, exposing thousands of families in Massachusetts and Rhode Island to removal from their homes after they fell behind on rent during the...