Woonsocket city leaders followed the actions of many communities across the country. They voted to fine people who camp out on city property. . One unhoused advocacy group says the fines that are part ...

Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But ...

The city of Woonsocket is moving forward with a new ordinance that makes it illegal to camp on public property and carries a fine of up to $250 for repeat violators. Critics say the change is going to ...

Immigration Court Judge Donald Ostrom said he was ordering Juan Francisco Méndez’s release from a detention center in New ...

Haga clic aquí para leer en español. Marilú Domingo Ortiz says Monday, April 14, started like any other uneventful weekday.

The abrupt change came the day after Cameron Hamilton testified on Capitol Hill that he did not agree with proposals to ...

When white smoke finally appeared above the Sistine Chapel Thursday evening, seminarian Nathan Ledoux of Newport had a front row seat. He and several other Rhode Islanders currently studying in Rome ...

About 47 percent of registered voters ages 18 to 29 cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election last year. That’s less ...

Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful ...

Like many New England colleges and universities, Providence-based Johnson & Wales University has been hit hard by declining ...

After Vivian Curren's young son threw sand on another child at a park, she assumed she was about to be judged for poor ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...