Brood XI cicadas, once found in Rhode Island, haven't been seen in generations and are presumed extinct. While periodical ...

More than 100 days after being taken hostage, Mark Patinkin met Edan Alexander's host father in Israel. He looks back on that ...

Peter Alviti Jr., director of the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, credits the public and decade-long efforts to enhance traffic safety.

Surveys also found more Rhode Islanders are struggling to pay for basic necessities such as food, heat and rent due to the rising cost of health care ...

The oldest state beach in Rhode Island, Roger W. Wheeler State Beach is getting a new boardwalk, stairs, foot washing station and benches ...

Summer 2024 featured rainy weekends. Summer 2023 was cold and rainy. What will RI weather be like this summer?

Boats pay neither sales tax nor property taxes Rhode Island is a tax haven for boaters from other states Rolling back the sales tax exemption was floated as a way to raise revenue PROVIDENCE – Will ...

Watch Rep. John Lombardi present his bill to end the exemption of boats from sales and property taxes.

Colin Channer, Rhode Island's poet laureate, is a Jamaican-born writer and Brown University professor. His poetry collections "Providential" and "Console" are inspired by New England, the Caribbean, ...

The annual count of traffic deaths exceeded 80 deaths in the early 2000s. The number has mostly ranged in the 50s or 60s since 2010.

Softball power rankings have become a mainstay in our spring coverage. We're making a late-season adjustment this week in how ...

Mother Nature wasn’t much of a baseball fan last week, but she kindly relented long enough for us to play at least a portion ...