By Janine L. Weisman | Editor-in-Chief
Good Tuesday morning!
The Providence forecast calls for a sunny day with a high of 80.
Evening high tide could rise one half-foot above ground level in low-lying areas near shorelines and tidal waterways. The National Weather Service has a Coastal Flood Statement in effect for Washington, southeast Providence, eastern Kent, Bristol and Newport counties and parts of southeastern Massachusetts through 2 a.m. Wednesday.
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High tide in Wickford is at 9:31 a.m. and 9:35 p.m. Low tide is at 3:03 p.m. Sunset is at 8:22 p.m.
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The Board of Elections meets at 4 p.m.
Gov. Dan McKee takes part in a 5:30 p.m. fireside chat at the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island in Cumberland as part of its 70th anniversary celebration. The governor's father, James McKee, started the club.
An advocate for healthcare affordability holds a sign during Gov. Dan McKee’s budget signing event at Children’s Friend in Providence on Friday, June 12, 2026. (Photo by Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current)
By Nancy Lavin
Rhode Island healthcare insurers are again seeking double-digit increases in premiums, fresh off record rate hikes in 2025. The surging costs, meant to keep insurers and healthcare providers solvent, will be weighed against consumer affordability by Rhode Island Health Insurance Commissioner Cory King.
The Providence Fire Department’s Engine 799, a decades-old Mack CF 600 series pumper, is now used for parades, union events and ceremonies. (Photo by Janine L. Weisman/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
The city of Providence filed a 72-page federal antitrust lawsuit last Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, accusing the nation’s three major fire truck manufacturers and a trade organization of doubling or even tripling the cost of some equipment. The city joins a list of communities across the nation accusing the manufacturers of conspiring to suppress the supply of emergency vehicles and leave municipalities waiting longer for them.
North Kingstown is arguing the combined effects of a wood chip pyrolysis plant in Quonset Business Park, pictured, and a proposed sludge treatment plant by the same company warrant a more thorough review by federal environmental regulators. (Photo by Laura Paton/Rhode Island Current)
By Nancy Lavin
The town of North Kingstown has put federal environmental regulators on notice: A lawsuit is coming over EPA air permit issued last year for Quonset Point pyrolysis sludge treatment plant.
Patrons sit at the Spring House Seafood Grill at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick on June 2, 2026. (Photo by Janine L. Weisman/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
Food and beverage workers at Rhode Island International T.F. Green Airport have authorized a strike and could walk off the job before the England-Ghana World Cup match if a contract dispute with Florida-based Grove Bay Hospitality Group remains unresolved.
A baby drinks from a bottle during a newborn care class. Congenital syphilis rates have been rising, and the only U.S.-made drug that can be used for pregnant women and babies with the infection, an injectable antibiotic, has been in shortage. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
By Nada Hassanein
The United States has a shortage of the only first-line medication recommended for pregnant women with syphilis to prevent passing it to their baby, even as congenital syphilis rates have been skyrocketing.
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