Samuel Ward was an American farmer, politician, Supreme Court Justice, Governor of Rhode Island and a delegate to the ...

Seaside delights, American history, and locally made art collide in this walkable New England harbor town located just ...

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

This is the state of Rhode Island's third location.

Aquidneck Island Land Trust has awarded six grants totaling $10,148 to local community and neighborhood groups through its ...

Archival footage from the 1986 Constitutional Convention captures a wide range of Rhode Island accents at a time when they ...

The Rhode Island accent, as we know it, may be headed for extinction. While it’s still a reliable feature of the local ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — 249 years ago Sunday, Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to formally declare its independence from Great Britain. On May 4, 1776, delegates gathered ...

thanks in part to the fact that May 4 is officially Rhode Island Independence Day. Back in 1776, Rhode Islanders got a jump start on the other 12 colonies, declaring the state to be independent from ...

The Puritans and the Pilgrims stood at odds and in conflict. The tiny colony of Rhode Island was founded by a Baptist Christian who had been banished by Puritans for his beliefs — in winter to a sure ...

It’s an important building as it signifies the proper transformation of the Rhode Island Colony into a proper state of the Union. It’s meant to be a pure symbol of freedom. In fact over a week before ...

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled that a New ... the 18th-century synagogue and its valuable possessions, including Colonial-era Torah bells worth millions. The case centers on a dispute ...