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.

XPO (NYSE: XPO), a leading provider of freight transportation in North America, today announced its team of 38 finalists for ...

The smallest state in the nation will no longer have the longest name. CNN projects Rhode Island voters have approved a measure that will strike “and Providence Plantations” from the state’s ...

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 ...

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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.

Juneteenth: The story behind the 155-year-old holiday that commemorates the end of slavery 06:20. The state of Rhode Island is moving to change its official name — "The State of Rhode Island and ...

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 ...