RIPTA: Masks Optional, Mandate Debated
PROVIDENCE — Masks remain an effective protection against spread of COVID-19, and while RIPTA encourages you to use one on their buses if you want, and experts advise using them […]
PROVIDENCE — Masks remain an effective protection against spread of COVID-19, and while RIPTA encourages you to use one on their buses if you want, and experts advise using them […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — Rhode Island COVID-19 cases have jumped to 6 percent of the population this week, placing the Ocean State aT the lead among northeastern states seeing an uptick […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new guidance on protecting people and neighborhoods from COVID-19, designating all Rhode Island counties as yellow […]
WARWICK, RI — Rhode Island now ranks seventh in the U.S. for per capita COVID-19 cases at 923, with Mayor Frank Picozzi among them. “Hi everyone. I want to let […]
ATLANTA, GA — Tuesday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky endorsed the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation that children get 5-11 COVID-19 Vaccinations, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, ASAP. The FDA […]
Warwick, RI – The local forecast for Halloween evening Sunday promises 48 degrees and a slight south wind of 7 to 9 mph, so an extra layer under your costume […]
WARWICK, RI – The CDC has ordered students and drivers must wear masks on school buses this fall, and advises they keep them on in class, but the Warwick School […]
ATLANTA, GA — As the highly-transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 solidifies its dominant status in the U.S. through a surge of cases among mostly unvaccinated people, the Centers for Disease […]
PROVIDENCE, RI — Two days into a February break the Warwick School Committee decided wouldn’t warrant quarantines, the RI Department of Health reported the first cases of a more contagious […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have joined Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and 31 other colleagues to prevent the Trump Administration’s suppression of […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Wednesday, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) before a key Senate panel that face masks may provide more protection from COVID-19 than […]
WARWICK, RI — Kent Hospital’s Women’s Care Unit scored 94 in the 2018 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care (mPINC) survey, placing […]