The Latest Breaking News from Rhode Island

Federal officials have declared a drought-related disaster in Rhode Island

“To get the call was a shock and I’m just so honored.”

The American ferry popular with partying passengers had been cruising and was in the waters near Rhode Island when a brawl broke out, with reports of multiple people suffering razor lacerations

It happens in court cases from time to time: Lawyers and judges discussing the meaning of a law can’t access the text they need to review.

Picture it: A vacant Beverly Hills bistro has been transformed into the set of a 1980s sitcom about four women living in Miami — but it’s also a working restaurant. Reservations have been going fast at the newly opened The Golden Girls Kitchen. Some patrons have come from out of…

Surprise! Joni Mitchell is back onstage. The folk legend performed her first full-length concert on Sunday at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, The Boston Globe reported. Mitchell has contended with health complications since suffering an aneurysm in 2015, and her last full show was in late 2002, according…

Metrc, provider of cannabis regulatory systems in the U.S., has entered into a contract with the State of Rhode Island to support the State’s regulation of medical cannabis, the company’s 22nd government contract to date and fifth so far in 2022.

Rhode Island Auditor General Dennis Hoyle released a report on July 12, 2022, estimating the state paid $550 million of fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021. The figure was up over the previous fiscal year in which the state estimated $171 million of fraudulent…

A state senator in Rhode Island who was suspended from TikTok after posting a video in which she twerked while doing a handstand in a bikini says she has no regrets