PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Gov. Dan McKee and the office of Energy Resources announced on Wednesday a plan that aims to lower electric costs for 39,000 low income Rhode Islanders. Rhode Island Energy, the state's primary utility, announced last month…
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE) -- Gov. Dan McKee signed a new offshore wind bill Wednesday. The bill requires a procurement for between 600 and 1,000 megawatts of newly-developed offshore wind capacity. Rhode Island Energy is required to issue the procurement…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Following a National Grid internal investigation on an overcharge of customers by $2.2 million over an 8- year period, The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission is now conducting their…
PROVIDENCE, RI (WLNE) - The data is in: 2021 was confirmed by experts at NASA/NOAA to be the sixth hottest year on record in nearly…
PROIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- A nearly $15 billion budget plan unveiled by Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee's team Thursday includes more spending, a millionaire's tax, another cigarette tax hike, a phase out of taxes on Social Security income, and a…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Revolution Wind, LLC has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pushing back against the Trump administration's December 22 lease suspension order. The action against the U.S. Department of the…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The legal battle over several offshore wind energy projects continues as the Trump administration cites national security concerns in its latest…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said it has lifted harmful algae bloom advisories in three towns. The advisories were for JL Curran Reservoir in Cranston, Smith and Sayles…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Providence Place receiver W. Mark Russo said that he filed a petition in Rhode Island Superior Court to allow Apple Cinemas to take over operation of the mall's theater. Russo said that if court approval was…
COVENTRY, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management recommended the public avoid contact with Flat River Reservoir, also known as Johnson's Pond, in Coventry due to a blue-green algae bloom. RIDOH…
NEW LONDON, Conn. (WLNE) -- Governor Dan McKee is in Connecticut today and he and his counterpart, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont delivered a joint…
NEW LONDON, Conn. (WLNE) -- Governor McKee will join Connecticut Governor Lamont for a press conference on the restart of the Revolution Wind. That will…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction Monday in favor of Revolution Wind after its construction was ordered to halt by the Trump administration. The offshore Rhode Island wind power…
EXETER, R.I. (WLNE) -- This morning, Exeter will be home to a first of its kind model for powering public housing. Today, a 6.5 megawatt solar…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and his Connecticut counterpart William Tong announced their intent Thursday to…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Gov. Dan McKee sent Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum a letter in response to a meeting the two had about the stoppage of the Revolution Wind Project. The U.S. Department of the Interior ordered any…
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management recommend avoiding contact with four bodies of water in the state due to confirmed blue-green algae blooms. The following waterbodies were part…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- Rhode Island leaders are opposing the Trump administration's order to pause the Revolution Wind project. The project was placing offshore wind…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior ordered any ongoing activity related to the Revolution Wind Project to stop Friday. In a letter to leadership…
NORTH PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health said it was recommending lifting a ban on recreational activities at Wenscott Reservoir in North Providence and closing Slack Reservoir in Smithfield and the state boat ramp at Tiogue…
COVENTRY, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said the public should avoid contact with a section of Tiogue Lake near Briar Point Beach in Coventry due to an algae bloom.…
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said the public should avoid contact with Georgiaville Pond in Smithfield due to a blue-green algae bloom. RIDOH said that skin contact with…
CRANSTON, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said the public should avoid contact with Meshanticut Lake in Cranston due to a blue-green algae bloom. RIDOH said that skin contact with…
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (WLNE) -- The Rhode Island Department of Health and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management said they have lifted an advisory to avoid recreational activity at Slack Reservoir in Smithfield. The advisory was put in place due to…
