The flag-raising was announced on the same day that the city’s Jewish Mayor Brett Smiley returned from a trip to Israel.

Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace - Rhode Island protested outside of Mayor Brett Smiley's Providence home on Thursday ...

Smiley is more than halfway through his term, and facing pushback from constituents over a planned tax increase.

Tensions between City Council members, and between councilors and the mayor, played out over several days before the flag ...

Mayor Brett Smiley said he wasn’t happy that Providence City Councilors will be raising the Palestinian flag at City Hall on ...

Providence, Rhode Island, officials have accepted a request to fly the Palestinian flag Friday at City Hall in the state’s ...

City Council leaders plan to fly the Palestinian flag above City Hall for four hours on Friday, while Mayor Brett Smiley just returned Wednesday from a trip to Israel with a goal to “strengthen ...