After years of back and forth with the state, Prudence Island is moving forward with a project to end its boil water advisory ...

Do you have a strong Rhode Island accent? We want to hear it. For an upcoming story, The Providence Journal is putting together a compilation of notable local accents. If you'd like to participate ...

Rhode Island ranks, according to one recent national study, as having a boat crash rate that is the second worst in the ...

Roughly 29,000 tons of rejected recycling ended up in Rhode Island's landfill last year, enough to fill 895 football fields.

Do you have a recipe for roadkill? Fourteen species are eligible for salvage, including deer, turkeys, and coyotes says DEM.

Several teams in the NCAA Tournament's East Region have connections to Rhode Island. High Point's Alan Huss was an assistant coach at Creighton, while McNeese State's roster features a former ...

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a doctor and assistant professor with a visa to work in Rhode Island, was deported to her native Lebanon over the weekend despite an ongoing dispute over her detention by ...

The Rhode Island Department of Health said it issued an overdose spike alert for increased non-fatal opioid overdose activity in Region 1. The region includes Burrillville, Foster, Glocester, and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A Brown Medicine doctor was deported despite having an H-1B visa. Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan Airport on Thursday after returning from a trip to ...

Join us for a collaborative event highlighting the K’iche’ language, which is widely spoken in Guatemala as well as in our local communities. Hear from professors and students in the Linguistics and ...

Measles cases are increasing in the United States, with 301 confirmed cases across 15 states this year. Rhode Island has a high measles vaccination rate, leading to a low risk of infection for ...

A federal judge has postponed a hearing to allow U.S. Customs and Border officials to respond to allegations they “willfully” disobeyed his order not to deport a Rhode Island doctor until he ...