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 ...

Providence Country Day boys tennis team is having a standout spring season. Here's how the Knights built their championship hopes.

Basically, it's three games of Bingo in the midst of a rave, or concert-like environment, complete with spraying confetti, lights and music by a DJ. The show is becoming more of a worldwide phenomenon ...

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 ...

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

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

The tallest waterfall in Rhode Island is the Cascade Brook Falls in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and measures 12 feet in height, according to New England Waterfalls.

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

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

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

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, ...