Woonsocket city leaders followed the actions of many communities across the country. They voted to fine people who camp out on city property. . One unhoused advocacy group says the fines that are part ...

The city of Woonsocket is moving forward with a new ordinance that makes it illegal to camp on public property and carries a fine of up to $250 for repeat violators. Critics say the change is going to ...

Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But ...

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 ...

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the ...

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

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

The United Nations and major groups currently running aid operations in Gaza, briefed by Israel on the plans, said they would ...