While the bulk of the new revenue the city is trying to generate comes from property taxes, the Smiley administration ...

Fellow legislators remember Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio, who died Monday morning, as "a champion for working people ...

"The town is practically a perfect rectangle on the map, and from every angle, it's brimming with lush wilderness — you have ...

Last summer was the fourth-hottest on record in the U.S. and the hottest for the Earth overall. Will this year bring the same ...

Sosnowski's bill would require "anyone" who traps green crabs to get a license and report their catch to the state, a structural barrier to trapping, although it would allow for a cheaper green ...

Night - Clear. Winds W at 4 to 9 mph (6.4 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 37 °F (2.8 °C). Partly cloudy with a high of 65 °F (18.3 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 16 mph (6.4 to 25.7 kph ...

Never has the phrase "good things come in small packages" been so accurate. Rhode Island might be the nation's smallest state ...

A home on Emily Way in Seekonk was destroyed by a fire on Monday afternoon. The Seekonk Fire Department said nobody was ...

A total of 800 measles cases across two dozen states have been confirmed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Most Providence taxpayers should plan on their bills going up. The $624 million budget proposal unveiled Wednesday by Mayor Brett Smiley and his team includes tax ...

A group of teenagers slashed two adults who told them to be quiet during a showing of “A Minecraft Movie” in Warwick, R.I.