Speaker Shekarchi described the new data as “sobering, but not surprising,” and pointed to other signs of improvement.

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Newport’s Touro Synagogue is at the center of a lawsuit once again. The lawsuit accuses former tenant Congregation Jeshuat Israel of misappropriating funds earmarked for ...

Workers at Butler Hospital began chanting, cheering and trudging in the mud out front of the psychiatric hospital at 6 a.m.

Preserve Rhode Island is giving out $125,000 in matching grants to 18 nonprofits across the state. Four projects in Newport County are getting $28,500 for fixing up historic buildings. These grants, ...