When white smoke finally appeared above the Sistine Chapel Thursday evening, seminarian Nathan Ledoux of Newport had a front row seat. He and several other Rhode Islanders currently studying in Rome ...

Standing up for civil liberties tends to be a busy job. That’s even more true with President Trump pushing the bounds of executive power on a variety of fronts. Trump has raised the focus on ...

Immigration Court Judge Donald Ostrom said he was ordering Juan Francisco Méndez’s release from a detention center in New ...

The abrupt change came the day after Cameron Hamilton testified on Capitol Hill that he did not agree with proposals to ...

The origin story of Alcatraz's name is a complicated mix of language, a history that dates back to the first Europeans to ...

Like many New England colleges and universities, Providence-based Johnson & Wales University has been hit hard by declining ...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily halted the deportation of a Venezuelan man who lives in Rhode Island. Rhode Island U.S.

About 47 percent of registered voters ages 18 to 29 cast ballots in the U.S. presidential election last year. That’s less ...

Marco Rubio serving as both Secretary of State and national security adviser could be "ultimately disadvantageous" to ...

Top state officials in Rhode Island are supporting an investment change sought by FM to keep the corporation from considering ...

After Rhode Island Senate Majority Leader Val Lawson won a lopsided vote Tuesday to lead the chamber following the recent ...

With the city facing a major budget shortfall, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in April proposed a 7.5% property tax increase ...