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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Israel's cabinet approved a plan to limit the way life-saving aid is distributed in Gaza. And, Diddy's trial begins today wth ...

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 ...

REAL ID will be enforced in U.S. airports starting May 7. Implementing the law involved years of negotiations between federal ...

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

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

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

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of ...