Bills recently introduced in the General Assembly would make it harder to take books off of public shelves by requiring that ...

Rhode Island’s oldest functioning courthouse is, in fact, the Kent County Courthouse in East Greenwich. Constructed in 1804, ...

Between 1776 and 1900, the Old Colony House was known as Rhode Island’s State House after ... cannons and attacked the state arsenal in Providence. The attack failed. Dorr's cannon misfired ...

He was a founder of the College of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (later Brown University) where he served as Chancellor. He had business interests throughout his life, ...

Rhode Island has a lot of Irish Americans, but it's not the most Irish state. Here's how many Irish people live here.

One of Little Compton's claims to fame is what organizers have dubbed "The World's Shortest St. Paddy's Day Parade.""It's always a fun event," Sarah St. Martin, ...

This is The Public’s Radio, I’m James Baumgartner. At a time when the longstanding friendship between the US and Canada is fraught with a trade war sparked by the Trump administration, a Rhode Island ...