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

House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi told a Chamber of Commerce audience that much depends on whether Congress slashes Medicaid and Medicare spending.

Many have heard about "Good Night Lights" for patients at Hasbro Children's Hospital, and recently, a Warwick boy was the ...

Several state leaders and advocates gathered Thursday afternoon to highlight the importance of protecting free expression and ...

Under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood," a group of artists projected anti-tyranny messages onto the Old State House in Boston ...

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

The rise of mobile saunas is also closely tied to the increased popularity of cold plunges and cold-water swimming. Typically, saunas park by the ocean or set up a cold plunge tank nearby, allowing ...

Ian Ridlon, the executive director and president of the Rhode Island Interlocal Risk Management Trust, spoke to the R.I.

NEWPORT – City Councilors were sticker-shocked when they found out a request to remove a speed camera on Ruggles Avenue would ...

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 ...

ESPN's Debbie Antonelli shoots thousands of free throws and makes almost all of them to support Special Olympics. Why?

In Boston, the demonstration began around noon on the Common near the State House. After a brief speaking program, organizers played the Dropkick Murphys’ song “I’m Shipping Up to Boston ...