Rhode Island PBS Weekly
“Rhode Island PBS Weekly” is a newsmagazine anchored in journalism that searches for truth and examines today’s most important regional and local issues. Viewers are introduced to individuals, ideas and places in Rhode Island and beyond that they won’t see anywhere else.
Latest Episode
An in-depth report on the mental health issues that many of Rhode Island’s young people struggle with every day. Then, Follow the Wampanoag tribe members as they build an ancient wooden canoe known as a Mishoon. Finally, Michelle San Miguel and WPRI 12’s politics editor Ted Nesi discuss the ailing Senate President remaining in his job, and the funding battle over Providence public schools.
Stories From Rhode Island PBS Weekly
A Wampanoag crew crafted a traditional dugout canoe called a mishoon
‘You feel really tense all the time’
Take a look back at some of the program’s most memorable moments
‘The real goal was to take the land. If they couldn’t exterminate us through genocide and warfare, they were going to exterminate us through forced assimilation’
Artificial intelligence has become part of our daily lives, but how intelligent is it, really?
Beth Caruso recounts the hysteria that began 45 years before the infamous trials in Massachusetts
Insurance companies are required to cover additional screening costs