Back in the 1890s, Rhode Island's schoolchildren voted to pick a state tree and selected the maple. The one problem with that was, there are a lot of different types of maple trees.

Rhode Island is the only state with an official appetizer, being calamari, because our draggers land a ton of squid at Point Judith. Other states have approximates, like Georgia, which boasts ...

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has issued an executive order stripping the word "plantation" — a loaded term associated with slavery — from official state documents and symbols.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has issued an executive order stripping the word "plantation" — a term associated with slavery — from official state documents and symbols.