The Rhode Island Department of Transportation gained access to the first $30 million wave of federal funds from the grant.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a $220.9 million federal grant to Rhode Island to replace the Washington Bridge in Providence has been signed amid 3,200 incomplete agreements ...

Advocates say the inspector general would root out waste and fraud, and may have saved the state the Washington Bridge ...

There was a strong display of bipartisan support at a hearing in Washington on Wednesday that involved money for the ...

Hospitality businesses are a more than $5 billion industry in Rhode Island. But the closure of the westbound Washington Bridge has commerce as well as commuters in a jam. According to an economic ...

The state of Rhode Island [today] signed the federal grant agreement... to build the Washington Bridge,” said McKee. “We are beginning to draw down millions of dollars as we speak.” The bridge was ...

When he first heard the news that state officials had condemned the Washington Bridge, Tom Bucci senior immediately thought: ...

"With this signing, the full funding for the new Washington Bridge has been assured," Gov. Dan McKee said, and he thanked the Trump administration.

Rhode Island’s Senate Minority Leader Jessica de la Cruz ... It was later determined the entire bridge needed to be replaced. The Washington Bridge connects Providence and East Providence over the ...

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation said that part of Gano Street in Providence will be closed on March 29 and March 30 for demolition of the Washington Bridge pier. The area at the ...

A video by Kansas-based engineer Casey Jones reportedly shows chunks of the old Washington Bridge still in the Seekonk River.