This needs to change.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Rhode Island’s capital city is marking its 375th birthday with five months of events celebrating Providence’s history, culture and future.

The birthday party starts this month and lasts into the fall with more than 200 events including the city’s Waterfire, summer concerts, a Festival of Historic Homes, walking tours and a literary speed-dating event at city libraries. The celebration will end with a gala in October.

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A new 3-mile walking trail through Providence designed to highlight Rhode Island’s history and culture will be unveiled to celebrate Rhode Island Independence Day.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Measles, a highly contagious disease considered rare in the U.S., has turned up in the Ocean State.

Rhode Island’s Department of Health announced Friday that a European woman in her 20s visiting the state has been diagnosed with the respiratory illness.

A physician diagnosed the woman, who was not identified, after she sought treatment for a fever and a rash. The Department of Health says the woman flew to New York from an unidentified country in Europe Tuesday, then drove to Rhode Island.

fuckyeahrhodeisland:

What lessons did we learn from the historic floods of March, 2010?

Of the many issues still facing us one year later, the floods certainly underscored the risks of obsolete and deteriorating dams impeding the natural flow of rivers and streams throughout the region. Rhode Island has 671 dams, many of which have outlived their useful life.

fuckyeahrhodeisland:

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island has the fourth-highest proportion of structurally deficient bridges in the country, a Washington-based coalition said.

Basing its conclusions on federal figures, the group Transportation for America said that of Rhode Island’s 754 bridges, 163, or 21.6 percent, are structurally deficient.

That puts Rhode Island three states behind Pennsylvania, where 27 percent of the bridges are deficient, the highest in the nation.