Rep. McNamara maintains the 1663 Royal Charter empowers the governor to create free trade zones, but R.I. Commerce officials ...

The 1979 Grammy Tavares won for “Saturday Night Fever.” Traditional island cooking utensils. You can see all these and more.

Everyone in Rhode Island should know that Cape Verdeans have been your neighbors, co-workers and friends since the Independence of the USA in 1776. Unless it is because a hurricane is forming near ...

Well, the celebration begins in earnest Friday in Newport when the Newport Historical Society hosts Two Lights for Liberty in ...

Tensions between the Virginia colony and the crown rose ... Dunmore’s fleet left Hampton Roads in May 1776, and the British held out for a time on Gwynn’s Island in the Chesapeake Bay about ...

That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.

Rhode Island has one of the lowest violent crime rates in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. But that doesn't mean tragedies don't touch the Ocean State. Longtime residents may ...

YORKTOWN — Colonial National Historical Park will host a special living history event featuring reenactors from the 1st Rhode ...

While Rhode Island has voted reliably blue in presidential elections for over thirty years, the state is typically seen as more moderate than its northeastern neighbors with voters caring more ...