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The 80-foot iWay bridge spanning the Providence River arrived on twin barges
Aug. 27 and was set in place just beyond the Hurricane Barrier the next day, part of the Department of Transportation's ambitious Interstate 195 relocation project.

Journal political columnist M. Charles Bakst interviews Bishop Tobin

Tour the Providence museum with its director and Journal arts writer Bill Van Siclen.

This collection highlights the work of Providence Journal photographers as they covered people, places and events around our area during the past year.

Over the past two decades, Ethel Dowdy of Woonsocket has been a foster mother for more than 80 children.

Journal political columnist M. Charles Bakst offers up his annual holiday poem.

Tom Coderre, Eagle Scout, state senator, United Way fund raiser... crack addict.

The Providence Athenaeum is finally poised to go through with the sale of a rare copy of Audubon's The Birds of America.

Hear and see more from Journal writer Tim Barmann

Sister Therese Antone, a Salve Regina University alumna and Rhode Island native, has been connected to the Newport school for most of its history, the past 11 years as its president.

Former ambassador Joseph Wilson speaks at Brown University Wednesday night. He talked about his book, The Politics of Truth.

Brian Hubbard finds his way back into the world of his friends through a cochlear implant. But all that is threatened by a decision to get a second one.

The Dalai Lama touches heads in a traditional exchange with former U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell at Salve Regina University on Nov. 17.

Hear and see more from Journal writer Andrea Stape.

From tuberculosis sanatorium to long-term care facility.

See photos of Herman Hassinger's collection as he discusses it and sings a mermaid song.

Installation of tight-fitting barriers to air are two basic steps to locking in savings.

Who's going to pay $400,000 to $2.5 million to live in downtown Providence?

Starting with a normal-looking actor, makeup artist Jaesin Goldsberry gradually transforms Don Donohue into the sinister-looking Scar.

One Rhode Island woman goes to the highway, not the cemetery, to remember her husband. But in other states, highway crews remove roadside memorials -- for safety reasons.

Follow the journey of Bladimir Rodriguez of Lincoln and two other local cyclists, who are biking 50,000 miles from Central Falls to Colombia in an effort to raise money in the battle against domestic violence.

Channel 12 investigative reporter Jack White, who won a Pulitzer Prize while working at The Providence Journal in the 1970s, died this morning.

Journal staff writer Timothy C. Barmann narrates a home energy audit and offers tips on energy conservation, with photos by The Journal's Kris Craig

Jack Welch talked to students last week at Providence College and Bryant University and signed copies of his latest book.

Reggie is held by veterinary assistant Chris D'Ambrosia, while getting an IV at Ocean State Vets in East Greenwich, about an hour before surgery.

Don Bousquet marks 25 years of cartooning for The Providence Journal with a greatest-hits collection titles State Trooper on the Beach.

While the south coast of Rhode Island took the brunt of the Sept. 21, 1938, hurricane, its force was felt as far as Providence, where the storm destroyed Washington Park Yacht Club, above, and flooded city streets.

An unusual, wood-framed one-bedroom home has been under construction all summer on the Providence River waterfront by students from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Galilee, one of New England's busiest fishing ports, is changing. Condos are going up, and some fishermen are worried about the port's future.

U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, facing election challenges from the right and left, says he's "right smack in the middle."

Work by day, dream by night, a local rock band, Of The Hour, just wants to make music for a living.

Rat-tat-tats fill the air in downtown Providence as young contestants gather for the Drum Corps International's individual & ensemble competition.

Diana Ubiles Agosta, 42, has nine children, a job that pays $9.23 an hour, a mortgage on a South Providence home she cannot pay and no car. She prays she can get through this.

Female soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq, even though U.S. policy allows only men in frontline combat.

A nurse comes out of the crowd to help an accident victim. To her, it's routine. To columnist Bob Kerr, who witnessed it, it was wonderful.

Long an unfinished eyesore, the Masonic Temple in Providence is now being converted into a luxury hotel.

Patriots' 2003 Fan of the Year Karen Cardoza, above, explains all you need to know about how to go to the team's training camp.

Learn about the sharks that visit our region's shores

The construction around Waterplace Park may be unsettling, but "the end result is very positive," says the president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce.

Domenic A. Vavala, 80, has been introducing -- in song -- the honorary degree candidates at Johnson & Wales University for decades.

Monica Miglani, of Pawtucket, has found her own way to live in two cultures

Sgt. Luke Walker holds a remnant of the Humvee attacked on Sept. 1, 2003, in Iraq, killing two members of the 115th Military Police Company and severely wounding a third.