Politics + Justice

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Advocates cite progress, but also hurdles, as housing prices and rents continue to climb
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An Atlanta-based foundation secured the necessary financing to buy Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, state leaders said
Democratic senator claims plane availability may have slowed FBI deployment to Brown University shooting in Rhode Island
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Survey of Rhode Island Democratic primary voters shows governor trailing with many still undecided
Survey shows governor underwater with independents as Washington Bridge tops voters’ concerns
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The deadline to sell two cash-strapped hospitals in Rhode Island is this Friday. There’s a lot on the line, in terms of jobs and health care
Trying to make sense of another senseless act, this time in Pawtucket
The suspected shooter worked at a shipyard in Bath, Maine, but often traveled to Rhode Island
Michael Black describes lunging at the gunman inside Pawtucket’s Dennis M. Lynch Arena, helping jam the weapon and subdue the shooter as other bystanders rushed in — actions police say “undoubtedly prevented further injury” in a tragedy that left three dead and three critically wounded
Three decades after being elected to Congress, Rhode Island’s senior U.S. senator is running again, in part to oppose President Trump