Rhode Island accents became a source of stigma during the 1980s, prompting locals to take classes and work with coaches to ...

US Representative Seth Magaziner’s mother-in-law, Jennifer McDowell, testifies for the bill, saying, “I deserve the right to ...

The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the "Rhode Island Numbers Evening" game were: ...

“Linguistically, we view it as a huge deal, because it’s a change in these broad patterns that go all the way back to the Colonial era.” While Stanford didn’t do fieldwork in Rhode ...

This was the Golden Age of Piracy, and England’s restrictions of trade in the Commonwealth through the Navigation Acts left some of its colonies, such as Rhode Island, looking the other way as pirates ...

After Puritan leader Roger Williams established Providence Plantations in 1636, European settlers consolidated their neighboring communities under the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence ...

Sunday, Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to formally declare its independence from Great Britain.On May 4, 1776, delegates g ...

Rhode Island only has 7 feet on that ... For reference, the tallest waterfall in the continental United States is the Colonial Creek Falls in Washington state, which has a vertical drop of ...

This was the Golden Age of Piracy, and England’s restrictions of trade in the Commonwealth through the Navigation Acts left some of its colonies, such as Rhode Island, looking the other way as ...

Police have revealed that they've uncovered some human remains not too far from Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island mansion ... including the pop star's 1930 colonial-style home.

As Rhode Island's capital, Providence is well-known as the state's hub for food, arts and entertainment, but it's also the state's oldest town. Providence was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, making ...