With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...

Waterbirds have seen a resurgence thanks to Gould Island's private nature, but efforts to open the island to recreation has ...

While many of the Ocean State’s regional names are a nod to Narragansett Indian Tribe words, others came from English ...

Rhode Island’s oldest functioning courthouse is the Kent County Courthouse in East Greenwich The state’s oldest non-working courthouse is likely the Old Colony House in Newport. The ...

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Rhode Island was founded by a guy – Roger Williams – who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for espousing “new and dangerous opinions.” Any Rhode Islander today who tries to ...

Rick Atkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is coming to Newport to talk about his latest book on the American Revolution. The event is happening on May 9 at the historic Colony House from 6 to ...

Old Colony Habitat for Humanity is building its first home in Taunton. Volunteers and Fall River's Whirlpool spent most of ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

From an artsy outpost in Arizona to a South Carolina city with roots going back to the 1500s, the best places to live are ...