Providence needs to fork over $15 million for the school department, and needs the General Assembly's permission to increase the tax levy by 7.5%.

While Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer, the holiday is a time to honor those who lost their lives defending our freedom.

Key questions for each team include Brown finding its next star player, Bryant continuing its coaching success, Providence navigating a post-Bryce Hopkins era, and URI defining a successful season.

The Rhode Island accent, as we know it, may be headed for extinction. While it’s still a reliable feature of the local ...

The two cities’ mayors argued the $19 million project would be a boon to economic development and the waterfront.

WARWICK — Rhode Island State Police arrested Taylor Whalen, 35, of Providence, following a motor vehicle stop on Route 95 at 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 13. Whalen was charged with driving under the influence ...

Fusion holds out the possibility of unlimited clean power, thus eroding the importance of the corruptly run countries whose ...

Gregg Amore is the Rhode Island Secretary of State. The Secretary of State is the state's third-ranking elected official, ...

Led by Speaker Joe Shekarchi, the effort to block the pay increases was in response to a state deficit, the impact of federal budget cuts, and increasing unemployment rate in Rhode Island.

Here are some of The Providence Journal's most-read sports stories for the week of May 11, as supported by your subscriptions ...

Home buyers from Massachusetts often find Rhode Island to be a more affordable option, but people from Connecticut can't say ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. ( WPRI) — A dead whale was found Sunday near Bold Point Park in East Providence, Rhode Island. A ...