U.S. measles cases topped 700 Friday, and two children and an adult have died. Texas and five other states have active ...

The multistate outbreak confirms experts’ fears that the virus will take hold in other US communities with low vaccination ...

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

Advocates say the inspector general would root out waste and fraud, and may have saved the state the Washington Bridge ...

Former members of the Coastal Resources Management Council joined the call for getting rid of the agency's voting council and ...

Longtime residents may remember the infamous Rhode Island Ripper, who killed three women in Woonsocket in the early 2000s, or ...

Stacker ranked the counties with the shortest life expectancy in Rhode Island using data from the University of Wisconsin ...

More than 40 volunteer community scientists took to water and shore to continue a 17-year Save The Bay tradition: counting ...

Stacker compiled a list of counties with the highest motor vehicle crash fatality rates in Rhode Island using data from ...

When folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arrives on the remote, sea-swept Wallis Island, he believes he’s coming to play an intimate gig for a few fans. In reality, the concert is for one man: ...

A large number of the heavy rebel guns have been dismounted, both of the island and of the shore batteries; and, at latest reports, the rebels appeared to be evacuating the island and getting over ...

In some states and counties, data shows an even larger portion ... Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, and Rhode Island all had one-point rate drops, the data shows. Eight states recorded no change.