(WJAR) — A powerful figure in Rhode Island politics has died. Senate President Dominick Ruggerio passed away early Monday morning at the age of 76, after he went back into the hospital last week ...

The Department of Children, Youth & Families disclosed the fatality of an infant and the near fatality of a 10-year-old child on Monday. Officials said the child and family of the 3-month-old ...

Protesters gathered at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence Thursday afternoon after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were reportedly present. “ICE is targeting a patient, and they are ...

A Rhode Island man credited Chick-fil-A for saving his life as he shed 132 pounds eating the popular fast-food chain’s Spicy Southwest Salad for lunch every day for over a year. Tom Carroll ...

Steven Howitt, a Massachusetts state representative from Seekonk, represents a district bordering Rhode Island and identifies strongly with the Ocean State. Howitt's district attracts many Rhode ...

Thousands also demonstrated in separate protests in Concord, N.H., and Portsmouth, N.H. Providence’s rally was organized by Indivisible Rhode Island, Climate Action RI, The Womxn Project ...

No one covers more high school sports than The Providence Journal, which allowed us to see all of Rhode Island’s best athletes ... and 16 assists for a 47-point season. Barker was a second ...

The Rhode Island school was one of 60 colleges and universities that the Department of Education’s civil rights arm warned earlier this month could have federal funding taken away over alleged ...

The tooth fairy will come in for a landing at the Sands Point Preserve on May 3. Waving her toothbrush wand, she’ll arrive in time to make her debut at the third annual Fairy Festival.

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U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Thursday endorsed making a major financial investment to upgrade the "dilapidated" U.S. Merchant Marine Academy campus in Kings Point but stopped short of ...

Emotions poured out in a Brooklyn courtroom Tuesday as a jury found Claudia Banton guilty on all charges, including murder and criminal possession of a weapon, for the 2021 point-blank shooting of ...