Rep. Joseph McNamara believes that the 1663 royal charter allows Rhode Island to avoid federal tariffs on cars and other ...

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

The closest place to Rhode Island to witness the emergence of periodical cicadas is Cape Cod, where Brood XIV is expected to ...

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

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

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

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

Rhode Island continued to be the most rebellious of the 13 U.S. colonies in the 18th century, earning the nickname "Rogue ...

President Nikos Christodoulides inaugurated on Sunday the Liberty Monument in Nicosia, pointing out that it is part of the island’s living history, dedicated to the struggle of our ancestors so ...

North Keeling Island is named after Captain William Keeling who is believed to have sighted the island in 1609. The island has not been inhabited for any continuous period and is in a natural state.

The longest running outdoor symphonic drama, The Lost Colony tells the real-life mystery of the first English colonists who came to Roanoke Island and who mysteriously disappeared. The show takes ...