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People participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for US public broadcasters, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2025.

Congress Rolls Back $9 Billion in Public Media Funding and Foreign Aid

The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Morning host Luis Hernandez spoke with The Public’s Radio & Rhode Island PBS president and CEO Pam Johnston about the impact of potential federal funding cuts.

With Federal Funding Cut, Rhode Island Public Media Issues Call for Community Support

A statement from President and CEO Pam Johnston

The 2026 federal budget may bring stark contrasts to Rhode Island’s future costs of providing Medicaid coverage and food assistance programs compared to now.

Federal Budget Leaves a Big, Beautiful Question Mark Over Rhode Island

State leaders brace for cuts in health care and food assistance

The Garrahy Judicial Complex in downtown Providence.

Judicial Nominating Commission Forwards Five Names to McKee for District Court Opening

Five attorneys are on Gov. Dan McKee’s shortlist to get a lifetime appointment to the state’s judicial branch, including a former Rhode Island Senate…

Rhode Island Joins Challenge to Trump Administration Limits on Health Insurance Enrollment Under ACA

New CMS rule would restrict access to gender-affirming care

Clergy Grapple With the Ethics of Using AI to Write Sermons

How would you feel if you found out that the sermon at your church was written by artificial intelligence? What does it means when the word of God comes…

Nine people died and more than 30 were injured in a fire at an assisted living facility in Fall River, Mass., on July 13, 2025.

The Bristol County DA Says It Incorrectly Declared a 10th Person Dead in Fall River Fire

The woman is alive, but in critical condition

Ken Burns speaks during the PBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour.

Filmmaker Ken Burns: Public Broadcasting is a 'Purely American Expression'

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new…

The original International Symbol of Access, designed in the 1960s by Susanne Koefoed. Its provisions are historic and profound. But its rectilinear geometry doesn’t show the organic body moving through space, like the rest of the standard isotype icons you see in public space. And the new, final icon in white on blue, to keep to the standard color scheme of the original. Now there’s just one wheel, but with two cutouts to emphasize its motion and make it easy to stencil.

Change the Sign and the Public Perception of Wheelchair Users

In Cambridge and Malden, Massachusetts, the image depicted on parking signs reserved for people with disabilities is slowly being replaced, from the…

According to Neighbors Welcome! RI, 78% of survey respondents said there are not enough homes to rent or buy in their communities that average people can afford.

Can a New Land Bank Help Produce More Affordable Housing in Rhode Island?

Rhode Island lawmakers have been trying for years to make progress on tackling the state’s affordable housing shortage

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