The Providence Journal reports that for the first time in Rhode Island, Providence is on track to add a designated LGBTQ+ landmark to the National Register ...

Here's the story of the first elementary school in Rhode Island. According to the Portsmouth Historical Society, the site of The Southermost Schoolhouse traces back to 1716, when the town of ...

Feb. events include the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading, and a free PPAC program celebrating musician and activist Randall Ashe.

When we talk about marking the landscape as an act of remembrance, we are referring to walking in the footsteps of the people and events that happened in that specific location decades, centuries, and ...

Columnist Mark Patinkin ponders new names for Rhode Island and it's cities and towns as the Gulf of Mexico gets renamed.

Governor Dan McKee’s proposals include more education funding, resuming truck tolls, and closing the minimum security prison.

CRANSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — The Rhode Island State Police said Thursday that they fired two troopers for violating rules, regulation and policies after they shared a video of a pedestrian death on ...

More than 100 protesters were prevented from entering the Rhode Island State House rotunda on Tuesday night while Gov. Daniel McKee delivered his State of the State address. The Black Lives Matter ...

In the RI GOP rebuttal of the State of the State speech, Senate Minority Leader Jessica de la Cruz called many of McKee's ...

TOPICS: MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — The Mercer Island Police ... numerous exterior windows and walls with antisemitic and racist symbols and phrases," wrote the MIPD in a media release.

But, did you know that the state has a host of other official symbols? There's an official tartan (hunting tartan), mineral (galena) and even soil (Antigo Silt Loam). The list doesn't stop there.