City & Government

The Senate today approved and the governor signed into law a $9.2 billion 2018 state budget bill that includes excise tax relief, along with a separate bill protecting taxpayers in case the economy sours. The Senate vote was a reconsideration of the chamber’s vote on the bill on June 30. Today’s vote removed an amendment […]

Lower Thames Street will be closed on Wednesday night to allow National Grid to conduct required maintenance on a gas main.Workers will be excavating the Workers will be excavating the roadway in the area of Thames Street at Young Street beginning at 8 pm, requiring the closure of Thames Street at that location. The roadway […]

Newport, R.I.  —  Two summers ago, Newport, RI was festooned with street banners proclaiming “Newport Waves!”. Posters around town and screens from the Hyatt Hotel to the Jane Pickens Theater and the Folk Festival at Fort Adams shared the message. Familiar Newport faces reminded people everywhere to Stop. Look. and Wave! The campaign was the […]

With Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival scheduled to take place at Fort Adams State Park over the next two weekends, it should come to no surprise that there will be heavy traffic over the next two weekends. It will surprise some and there may be a few that even say they didn’t know, […]

Christopher Hayes, 49, of Middletown, R.I., a former Newport, R.I., Police Department Sergeant and President of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Newport Lodge No. 8, was sentenced today to a total sentence of 12 months, 6 months imprisonment followed by 6 months of home confinement, for using FOP funds for personal use according to […]

What happens at the State House, doesn’t stay at the State House. It reaches into our pocketbooks, our schools, our highways, the air we breathe and the water we drink. That’s why this Senate District 13 election on August 22nd is so important, and that’s why AM 1540 WADK and What’sUpNewp will present a LIVE […]

Just after Dawn Euer won the Democratic Primary for Senate District 13 on Tuesday night, Republican Michael “Mike” Smith issued a statement calling his Democratic opponent the “most progressive candidate in the race” and encouraging the rest of the Democratic field to rally around his candidacy. “After a hard-fought primary on Tuesday, the most progressive candidate on […]

NEWPORT, R.I. –  Dawn Euer has won the Democratic primary election for the Senate District 13 seat previously held by M. Teresa Paiva Weed, who was the powerful Senate president. Paiva Weed resigned in the spring to take a position as executive director of the Hospital Association of Rhode Island. She backed David Hanos, the […]

Lauren Carson, Representative for District 75 (Newport), has expressed her support of Dawn Euer for Senate District 13 (Newport, Jamestown). Euer is one of seven candidates running for the seat formerly held by Teresa Paiva Weed. Of those seven, the four Democrats will face off in a Primary on Tuesday, July 18th. “Dawn is committed to […]

Who to vote for in the upcoming primary and special election? That’s a question many of you may have, especially if you are a Democrat. I met up with David Allard, one of the four Democratic candidates, at his campaign office on Long Wharf on Friday to discuss his campaign, his priorities if elected, his thoughts […]

There were no surprises in the latest financial filings of the four candidates for the Democratic nomination for the Senate District 13 seat, with each candidate left with a reasonable cash balance for the last few days of the campaign, and each showing expenditures outpacing contributions. Candidates are required to file a financial report seven […]

Who to vote for in the upcoming primary and special election? That’s a question many of you may have, especially if you are a Democrat. I met up with David Hanos, one of the four Democratic candidates, at his business on Long Lane Court on Wednesday. In the following Facebook Live video, we discuss his campaign, […]

Steve Ahlquist and Bob Plain from RI Future were on hand on Monday night for our Senate District 13 Candidate Forum at Jane Pickens Theater. Their story, Senate District 13: 6 candidates square off at Jane Pickens in Newport, has phenomenl coverage of the event with seperetate videos for each question that was asked so that you, […]

Where do 6 of the 7 candidates for Senate District 13 stand on important local and statewide issues? Those were the topics of What’sUpNewp’s Senate District 13 Candidate Forum at Jane Pickens Thater & Events Center on Monday night. Several hundred concerned Newport and Jamestown voters showed up at the historic theater to hear from […]

Candidates hoping to fill the state Senate seat left vacant by former Senate President M. Teresa Paiva Weed took part in a public forum Monday night at Jane Pickens Theater in Newport, Kim Kalunian from WPRI was on hand for the event. Read More – Candidates vying for Paiva Weed’s state Senate seat take part in forum

More than 30 governors from across the United States will attend an event in Newport on July 15th during this year’s National Governors Association (NGA) Summer Meeting. The Summer Meeting, which is scheduled for July 13th – 16th, is being hosted mainly in Providence by Governor Gina Raimondo. The nation’s governors will meet to discuss some of […]

The following items of business, filed with the City Clerk under the Rules of the Council, will go before the Newport City Council at its regular meeting in the Council Chambers at Newport City Hall on  July 12, 2017, at 6:30 pm. The event is open to the public. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG […]

The latest financial disclosure forms filed by candidates vying for the Senate seat in Newport held until this Spring by M. Teresa Paiva Weed, has found all four Democrats in the race actively fundraising, indicating a wide range of support throughout the state’s Democratic party. Meanwhile, the Republican, Green Party and Independent candidates, in papers […]