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

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

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

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

While many of the Ocean State’s regional names are a nod to Narragansett Indian Tribe words, others came from English ...

The first colony appeared a decade later in the Sakonnet River. The great black-backed gull, another bird that hadn’t previously nested in the state, began breeding in Rhode Island in 1944 ...

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

At that point, the Connecticut colony attempted to usurp portions of present-day Rhode Island, issuing a proclamation ... as few people were interested in leaving Providence for the wilderness.

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.