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A lot of us flush or toss our old medication without much thought, but the side effects of that habit can show up in our water. Good news: we can all help fix it for free.

New England has plenty of quaint colleges in historic locales, but UMass Dartmouth, nestled in the forest of a town founded in 1664, is one of a kind. The state university’s sprawling megastructures ...

Activists from the Alliance to Mobilize our Resistance (AMOR), Olneyville Neighborhood Association and RI PSL were informed about the incident at the hospital after a community member called into ...

Ian Donnis: Let’s let the cat out of the bag. What is the new name for public media in Rhode Island as of this fall? Pam Johnston: We are going to be called Ocean State Media, and we’re so excited to ...

Experts say the devastating floods in Nepal at the end of August were caused in part by melting glaciers. On this episode from 2023, the Possibly team looks into why these glaciers are melting, and ...

Megan Hall: Welcome to Possibly, where we take on huge problems like the future of our planet and break them down into questions with unexpected answers. I’m Megan Hall. Here in Rhode Island, we had ...

Late last year, Brown University transferred some 255 acres of land it owned in Bristol to a trust associated with the Pokanoket Tribe. That came after a separate land trust associated with another ...

Schools in Central Falls, R.I., temporarily lock up student electronics in pouches made by the company Yondr. Credit: Rhode Island PBS Weekly The Rhode Island House of Representatives on Monday ...

Helena DaSilva Hughes, president of the Immigrants’ Assistance Center, said she’s been talking with Portuguese officials in the Azores to understand what families will need in order to “self-deport.” ...

Lawson remains guarded on whether she aspires to be Senate president. Credit: James Baumgartner / The Public's Radio Valarie Lawson has enjoyed a rapid rise in the Rhode Island Senate. Lawson was ...

The Providence City Plan Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to adopt some zoning ordinance changes based off of the city’s new comprehensive plan. Broadly speaking, the zoning changes would ...