Johnston, Rhode Island, Mayor Joseph Polisena promised to "use all the power of government" to stop the privately financed ...

President Trump recently signed an executive order to pause offshore wind leasing — a move that could have widespread impact ...

SCITUATE − Stunning news spread across the Ocean State one winter's day in early 1946. "Rhode Island woke up today with a start," a Page One story in The Evening Bulletin of Jan. 24 began.

The state and federal governments own thousands of acres of vacant land in Rhode Island. Much of it is environmentally sensitive, but not all. Rhode Island and the federal government could lead by ...

Data for Rhode Island compiled by the National Interagency Fire Center, a federal government organization ... has seen as many fires or as much land burned in Rhode Island as the stretch from ...

Rhode Island and the federal government could lead by example making some of this land available free to nonprofit housing ...

But the congregation is trying to gauge the most effective way to proceed now that the new Trump administration has announced it will let federal ... from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused ...

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island ... recognized early on that state and federal environmental legislation cannot only be positive for air, land, and water, but also good for the economy ...

Eight Rhode Island restaurants and chefs have been named ... awards in the past but has yet to win first place. NIMKI, on Federal Hill, is a first-time candidate through chef Nikhil Naiker.

A simple legal strategy could spell the end of the fledging industry, which had been poised for renewal. But it may also ...

Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the ... The center of society in Providence during the Colonial and early Federal periods, Benefit Street remains a vibrant, tree-lined city street ...

On Friday, the demolition of the Washington Bridge suffered a significant incident, according to witnesses tied to the Rhode ...