Homeless advocates rallied outside Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee’s State House office Thursday, calling on the Democrat to do more to provide permanent shelter for a growing number of homeless people as winter shelters are about to close and more people face homelessness.… MORE
The head of Rhode Island’s second-largest hospital group announced Wednesday that he will retire early next year.… MORE
A new effort is underway to find the remains of a British ship that Rhode Island colonists burned 250 years ago, marine archaeologists and state officials announced Tuesday.… MORE
A man found floating on a raft off the coast of Rhode Island in 2016 after his boat sank was charged in an indictment unsealed Tuesday with killing his mother at sea to inherit the family’s estate.… MORE
Rhode Island’s two Democratic U.S. senators called for a cap on the cost of insulin on Monday.… MORE
The University of Rhode Island has established a scholarship program that this year is helping 15 citizens of the Narragansett Indian Tribe pay for their educations, the university announced Monday.… MORE
One of the oldest fishing industries in the U.S. sank to a new low in catch last year, signaling that efforts to rebuild the fishery still have a long way to go. … MORE
In a first chance to see the leading candidates for governor on stage together, five Democrats and one Republican fielded questions Thursday at a forum hosted by a business group at a luncheon in Warwick.… MORE
Firefighters in Boston worked for more than three hours to rescue an injured construction worker after part of a historic power plant collapsed Wednesday while being redeveloped.… MORE
The Rhode Island Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2019 state law that protects abortion rights in the state when it rejected a legal challenge to a lower court’s decision.… MORE
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