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Editor’s note: McKnight’s Home Care, McKnight’s Senior Living and McKnight’s Long-Term Care News are profiling the McKnight’s 2024 Women of Distinction honorees daily from July 1 to Aug. 13. For additional McKnight’s Women of Distinction content, visit this page. Melinda Monasterski always knew she...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island Energy is alerting customers of new changes that will affect their accounts. Rhode Island Energy President Greg Cornett was in the ABC 6 studio to discuss what customers should look out for starting August 19.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The city of Providence and the State of Rhode Island are mourning the loss of Cedric Huntley, the former Executive Director of the Nonviolence Institute in Providence. ABC 6 had a chance to speak with people who knew him and remember him today. “He meant...

(WJAR) — Parents could soon have more say in their child's special education services. The Rhode Island General Assembly recently passed a bill to give parents more insight and control over their child's individualized education program, also known as an IEP. The bill would allow parents or guardians to...

QUINCY - Stop & Shop said it will close 32 "underperforming" stores in Massachusetts and four other states. The stores are expected to close by November 2.Stop and Shop closing storesEight of the 32 stores are in Massachusetts. Here is the full list released Friday:MASSACHUSETTS932 North Montello St., Brockton 36 New State Highway, Raynham 341 Plymouth St., Halifax 539-571 Boston Turnpike, Shrewsbury 165 Needham St., Newton (bfresh Market) 415 Cooley St., Springfield (1600 Boston Rd. and 1277 Liberty St., Springfield will remain open) 545 Lincoln St. Worcester (940 West Boylston St. and 949 Grafton St., Worcester will remain open) 24...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — United Way of Rhode Island kicked off its summer learning initiative today. In collaboration with and offered in five communities, the organization and its partners said they are hoping to bring attention to the important and value of the program, and sounding the alarm that thousands more would participate if a program were available to them.

Support provided by someone who has personally lived with addiction is an effective way to follow-up with ER patients after an opioid overdose, new research shows.

PROVIDENCE – The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch as heavy rain, as much as 5 inches in some locations, moves into the region. "You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible flood warnings," the weather service says in the watch. "Those living in areas prone to flooding should be prepared to take action should flooding develop."

USA Lacrosse this week released its list of All-American selections. This post will look at the girls recognized from Connecticut and Rhode Island. All-Americans are players who exhibit superior skills and techniques, and possess exceptional game sense and knowledge. An All-Academic honoree is a player who exhibits exemplary lacrosse skills, sportsmanship on the field, and high standards of academic achievement in the classroom.

Rhode Island has some very special connections to the upcoming Paris Olympics. Jamestown's Emily Kallfelz has made the U.S. Olympic rowing team. Rhode Island sailor Stu McNay is among American athletes headed to Paris. Former Providence College basketball star Jovana Nogic will play for her native Serbia in the Olympics.

Have you done your taxes yet? If not, don't despair, as tax deadlines are later this year. If you live in Providence, Washington or Kent Counties in Rhode Island, you have until Monday, July 15, to file your federal taxes, because of storms earlier in the year, while the state tax filing deadline is July 15, regardless of what county you live in.

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Dan McKee shared good news Wednesday when he announced Rhode Island's 7% decrease last year in accidental overdoses, but he acknowledged that the state has "a lot more work to do" in addressing its overdose "epidemic." The number of people in Rhode Island who died from...

A home on Freeman Parkway, in Providence, recently sold for $4,772,393. The The Clarke F. Freeman House, circa 1929, has 6,551 square feet of living space on a .49 acre lot, six bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms. Property on Broad Street in Central Falls sold for $4,500,000 A North Kingstown home sold...

Q: My son’s 2017 Maxima was stolen about four years ago. A police report was made in Providence and the DMV was notified. At the time, there wasn’t any comprehensive insurance on the vehicle, so no insurance company was involved. The car was recovered about two years ago...

PROVIDENCE – It’s been two years since Pennsylvania-based PPL Corporation took over the Ocean State’s biggest energy utility and renamed it Rhode Island Energy.  The switch wouldn’t have been all that noticeable to most consumers except for the new name of the company on their electric and natural gas bills.  But on Aug. 19...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — The Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office has filed a motion to end all operations at Rhode Island’s Recycled Metals following a fire that broke out at the scrapyard on Wednesday. The fire was the second fire on the property in three months. City...

PROVIDENCE — Across Rhode Island, fourteen “health equity zones,” or “HEZs,” are engaging residents and stakeholders to improve the social, environmental, and economic conditions of their communities. These HEZs are part of Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zone Initiative, created in 2015 under the Rhode Island Department of Public Health (RIDOH).

STORY OF THE WEEK: With 122 days until the Nov. 5 election (as of the writing of this column), Democrats find themselves in a fix. Various news reports this week had President Biden weighing a possible exit from the race, resolving to stay and fight, and still thinking about getting out. Precisely what will happen remains unclear, but the window for a change in course is closing fast. With the Republican National Convention set to start in Milwaukee July 15, Democrats could divert attention with a move to shake things up. The November election has long been perceived as a tight race, and Biden’s faltering debate performance came at the worst time for Democrats. This has made for a field day for Donald Trump enthusiasts and offered more grist for the “double-haters” who may decide the election, even as the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision expanding executive power has fanned Democrats’ fears about the future. Elected Democrats find themselves in a difficult position. This week included more calls for Biden to step aside – and many prominent Democrats probably share that view – although they remain publicly behind the president. It hardly seems coincidental that the most outspoken local Democrat, former state Rep. Aaron Regunberg, does not hold an elective office, after making a losing bid in CD1 last year. Regunberg likens the situation facing Democrats to being on a train racing toward a cliff, with a final chance to veer off in a different direction. Here’s one of the less fiery tweets from the Providence Democrat: “We’re winning special elections. Our swing state senators have been polling well. It was pretty clear even before the debate that we don’t have a Democrat problem in 2024, we have a Biden problem. As president he’s helped fix many national problems. He now needs to fix this one.”

Stop & Shop on Friday said it plans to close nearly three dozen “underperforming” grocery stores, including several in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiotics he was taking made him need to go to the bathroom frequently. But he could get there only if someone helped him into his wheelchair.