Secretary of State Gregg M. Amore and the RI Department of State today announced that the State House will once again be open ...

Only the president, the state governor or the mayor of Washington, D.C., can order flags to fly at half-staff. More: Why are flags at half-staff in Rhode Island? President Jimmy Carter honored ...

Rhode Island was the first state to authorize an integrated military ... Islanders of color who wore the uniform and saluted the flag of the fledgling United States in spite of the fact that ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN - A state laboratory that examines and analyzes gun-related evidence in Rhode Island criminal cases is scheduled for its own full-blown examination by an accrediting board this ...