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Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee joins local legislators and educational leaders to kick off the 2025-26 Attendance Matters RI campaign at the State House on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025.

K-12 Chronic Absenteeism Rates Decline for Third Consecutive Year in Rhode Island

More Rhode Island kids attended school in the last school year, pulling the state’s chronic absenteeism rate down to 22.1% — a decrease of around 2.6…

The lead tenant of the Florence Gray Center on York Street in Newport is the Boys & Girls Clubs of Newport County, which operates a licensed child care facility for up to 120 kids ages 5 to 15 and athletic programs in the gym.

State Panel OKs Transfer of Newport North End Community Center Wing Back to Housing Authority

The State Properties Committee voted Tuesday to transfer the ownership of an addition to a community center in Newport’s north end from the Rhode Island…

Brown University’s Main Green is pictured in April 2024.

Brown University and Brown Health Unions Team up to Form Labor Council

Unions across Brown University and Brown University Health have banded together to form a new labor federation with about 7,000 members total.In a Monday…

Roberta Rabinovitz with her grandson, Doug McCormack, in her apartment at Franklin Court Assisted Living, in Bristol, R.I.

Rising Housing Costs Put Older Rhode Islanders' Health at Risk

Finding stable housing for seniors is now part of a health plan

Labor leaders and state officials urge the federal administration to let work resume on the Revolution Wind project at a press conference at Quonset Point on Aug. 25, 2025.

R.I. Gov. McKee Asks to Meet With Trump Over Revolution Wind Project Still in Limbo

Millwrights return to shore, with jobs and pay at risk

Savoring Summer's Last Day the New England Way, With a Clambake

Hot rocks, seaweed, and clams are the core elements of this ancient style of cookout, which a Quaker meeting in Dartmouth, Mass., has held annually since the 1880s

The State Pier in New London, Conn., serves as a staging port for Revolution Wind. Connecticut officials gathered there to discuss the project on Aug. 25, 2025.

Rhode Island and Connecticut Sue the Trump Administration for Halting Revolution Wind

The federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a stop-work order on Aug. 22

Pioneering Program Helps Victims of Sexual Violence

Brown University Health's SAFE services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Tiny sea creatures called salps showed up on some Rhode Island beaches during the summer of 2025. These salps were found off the coast of Kona, Hawaii.

Rhode Island Beaches Hosted Tiny Gelatinous Visitors This Summer: Salps

No, the small squishy spheres aren’t jellyfish

Amanda Maria Salazar Toro of Darien, Conn., holds an American flag after participating in a naturalization ceremony at the federal building in Hartford on Feb. 7, 2025.

Rhode Island League of Women Voters Barred From Registering New Citizens at Naturalization Events

A local leader calls the new federal policy an attempt to “control who votes”

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