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After a brisk three-hour debate, lawmakers advanced a budget boosting health care funding and raising new taxes on vacation homes—while bracing for potential federal cuts that could send them back to the State House this fall

Talks resume with federal mediator and larger union presence amid mounting worker hardship, community support, and questions over hospital finances and real estate deal

Senate Republicans say legislation goes too far. Some gun rights advocates say it doesn’t go far enough.

A proposed ban on hemp-derived THC beverages has morphed into a request for state regulators to recommend how to handle the products by next March, under…

Legislation to end indoor smoking at Bally’s casinos wins unanimous support in committee, marking major step forward for worker health despite delayed implementation and industry pushback

A bill to raise Providence’s total tax levy beyond the state-mandated cap cleared its penultimate hurdle Tuesday.The Senate Committee on Finance voted 8-1…

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President…

The Social Security trust fund is expected to run out of cash in eight years, according to a report released Wednesday by the program's trustees. Unless…

The COVID-19 variant that may be driving a recent rise in cases in some parts of the world has earned a new nickname: “razor blade throat” COVID.That’s…

More than 100 million people across the United States are caregivers to a family member, and the value of their unpaid labor is estimated at over $600…