On July 8th, 1663, 27 years after Roger Williams arrived in the colony, King Charles II gave Rhode Island its first royal ...

Some exhibits and events are already underway in Providence and Newport to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

Baseball great Ted Williams inspired university statue in Rhode Island With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...

California Democrats vote to increase gas prices Mystery of America's 'Lost Colony' may finally be solved after 440 years, archaeologists say ...

History This Day in RI History: May 18, 1652 – Rhode Island becomes the first colony to pass an anti-slavery law By the time of the Revolutionary War, Rhode Island has a slave population of 6.3 ...

When Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, talked with local Native Americans, he reported that the younger tribe members were surprised by the earthquake. But older tribe members ...

PROVIDENCE — In response to President Trump’s tariffs, a Rhode Island legislator is urging Governor Dan J. McKee to tap powers granted by the state’s 1663 Royal Charter to create “free ...

As Swifties await news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's vacation plans following Super Bowl 2025, here are some of the pop star's favorite holiday spots from years past ...

The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals.

MORE than a hundred and twenty years before the Bill of Rights guaranteed religious freedom throughout the American Colonies, the citizens of the Rhode Island Colony petitioned Charles II of Englan ...

How the Rhode Island Film Festival Is “Writing a New Narrative” Executive director Shawn M. Quirk sees his role in "building this global community, as well as helping our local filmmakers who ...

After Williams journeyed to England in 1643, the British Parliament granted him a patent that gave legal standing to the Rhode Island colony. However, folks outside Providence, especially in Newport, ...