Nearly 900 runners set off on a 13.1 mile challenge under cool, overcast skies at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 28. The race ...

PORTSMOUTH — A pressure campaign by a disgruntled citizen has led to the resignation of the town prosecutor over his failure to pull building permits for past construction projects on his property.

To the editor: I am writing this letter on behalf of a recently organized group, Islanders for Democracy. We are area citizens who are alarmed at the actions being taken at the federal level. Among ...

The East Providence Fire Department will be the first in the United States to be fully outfitted in turnout gear wholly free from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — also know as PFAS, or “forever ...

The City of East Providence is launching a second round of grant funding for those businesses that did not have the opportunity to apply the first time around. A press release on the new funding ...

This so-called Colony House in Newport is the oldest (1739-1741) of Rhode Island’s five surviving historic state house and court house buildings. It was the site of the May, 1790 convention that ...

Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of stories on local veterans written by Westport Middle High School students who spent the first half of 2025 interviewing more than 20 local veterans ...

Lights, cameras, action! Hollywood is coming to Little Compton. Crews filming M. Night Shyamalan’s new film, “Remain,” are expected in Adamsville Friday and later, Sakonnet Point. Work is also set for ...

To the editor: The verdict is in on what Israeli apartheid is doing to the Palestinians – ethnic cleansing since the 1948 Nakba and permanent occupation in Gaza and the West Bank since 1967. It’s the ...

Spring moving into summer is often rainy, sunny, humid, and sometimes cold. Because of this imbalance in weather, the sky ends up having arguments in the form of thunderstorms, which often, luckily, ...

1. STORY OF THE WEEK: In some ways, the $14.3 billion budget approved by Rhode Island’s House Finance Committee this week is a return to the pre-COVID norm. But in other ways, it’s a placeholder, ...

PROVIDENCE — By an 8-6 vote Wednesday, June 18, the Judiciary Committee of the State Senate passed an amended bill, 2025-S359, which, coupled with a version passed by the House of Representative, ...