The Rhode Island Department of Transportation gained access to the first $30 million wave of federal funds from the grant.

The Department of Transportation is working through a backlog of roughly 3,200 grant awards that did not have signed ...

Gov. Dan McKee, who waved a copy of his Rhode Island 2030 plan aloft during his State of the State speech in January, is ...

More than 80,000 Rhode Islanders depend on food from the Rhode Island Community Food Bank and its network of food pantries.

The Trump administration has approved a $221 million federal grant for the construction of a new Washington Bridge in Rhode Island. The grant, awarded under the Biden administration, was delayed ...

Dan McKee said Thursday that Rhode Island has secured more than $220 million from the federal government to rebuild the westbound side of the Washington Bridge. McKee said the state signed an ...

Last year, 607 registered lobbyists earned a total of $16.4 million to sway the actions of RI's governor, lawmakers and other ...

PROVIDENCE — For months, Rhode Island’s congressional delegation and leaders have debated whether the $220 million designated to build a new Washington Bridge westbound on Interstate 195 could ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a $220.9 million federal grant to Rhode Island to replace the Washington Bridge in Providence has been signed amid 3,200 incomplete agreements ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — After weeks of uncertainty over federal funding for the Washington Bridge project, Gov. Dan McKee announced Thursday that Rhode Island will be getting that much-needed ...

US grants $221M to rebuild Rhode Island's failing Washington Bridge, addressing critical infrastructure and backlog issues.

Hospitality businesses are a more than $5 billion industry in Rhode Island. But the closure of the westbound Washington Bridge has commerce as well as commuters in a jam. According to an economic ...