The Rhode Island Bar Association has sounded the alarm about what it says is a shortage of deputy sheriffs that is delaying ...

Former Rhode Island Gov. Edward DiPrete, who served as the state's chief executive for six years and was later jailed for corruption, has died. He was 91.

Alan G. Hassenfeld, a renowned philanthropist and former CEO of iconic toy company Hasbro Inc., the maker of G.I. Joe and Play-Doh, has died. He was 76, according to the toy company.

In 2020, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder while in the custody of Minneapolis police, a Rhode Island Senate-created task force began meeting to look at the Rhode Island law that then-NAACP ...

Officials in Providence, Rhode Island, recently approved a $10 million budget plan for the city’s reparations program, but some are wondering who might end up benefiting from it.

But Rhode Island has not exactly been a beacon of enlightened bipartisanship. A 2014 New York Times review of the Shor-McCarty survey noted, “It’s common for Republican officials in heavily ...