As Rhode Island gets ready for America's 250th birthday, some wonder whether we're investing enough into the tourism ...

According to the New England Historical Society, Rhode Island's oldest high school can be traced back to 1800, when Rhode ...

Waterbirds have seen a resurgence thanks to Gould Island's private nature, but efforts to open the island to recreation has ...

Friedman produced “Harry Potter,” the highest-grossing non-musical play in Broadway history that’s now set to be the ...

Rhode Island also has various elementary and high schools that were founded centuries ago. In a state with so much history, what schools are the oldest? And can you believe one of them is still in ...

The pope advocated for studying church history in a way that is unfiltered and authentic, flaws included. He emphasized primary sources and urged students to ask questions. Francis criticized the view ...

Longtime city resident Joseph Bolton’s latest installation in his multi-volume book set “Old Grandmother’s Tree: A Collection ...

Claudine Schneider, the first woman elected from Rhode Island to the U.S. House of Representatives, was born. Elected in 1980, the political trailblazer also was the first Republican Representative to ...

Francis Nunzio Carlone (Frankie Carle) was born in Providence on March 25, 1903. A keyboardist in the big band era, Carle was ...

Three of the state’s municipally owned wastewater plants contributed nearly 50 percent of the discharge into Narragansett Bay in 1989, according to a report by Save The Bay, The Jamestown Press ...