Rhode Island’s Democratic-controlled state House has advanced legislation that would ban sales of certain semiautomatic ...

Lawmakers want to toughen criminal penalties for a nearly decade-old law to punish suspects who are caught “upskirting” or secretly recording people’s private parts.

House and Senate Republicans are taking different approaches when it comes to the tax cuts that lawmakers are looking to ...

Juror #1, the foreman in the Karen Read retrial, told the Herald there was no “a-ha moment” in the grueling case that he said ...

Five key witnesses in Karen Read’s murder trial spoke out after she was acquitted of second-degree murder charges in the 2022 ...

How 'The Gilded Age' got access to Newport's historic mansions and how it's sparking a tourism boom in the Rhode Island ...

Originally built around 1900 for newspaper executive Albert Fox and his opera-singer daughter, Blanche Hamilton Fox, the home ...

A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Harvard ...

A spokesperson for House Speaker Ron Mariano said Friday that he "looks forward to serving as Speaker for the remainder of ...