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Don't Give a Hoot About Sports? The Superb Owl Might Be For You

For people who don't give a hoot about sports, there's more than just football to celebrate this weekend.Say hello to the Superb Owl.The anagrammatic play…

Officials from New Bedford school districts in the region said it was too soon to confirm whether attendance has gone down.

Immigrant Parents Fear ICE Will Take Action at Local Schools

In the wake of Trump’s numerous executive orders targeting immigrants and refugees, some parents in Rhode Island and the South Coast of Massachusetts are feeling anxious about their children’s safety at school

Taxing Digital Ads Opened Maryland up to Litigation. McKee Wants Rhode Island to Do It Anyway

Lawmakers hear testimony on governor’s proposed 10% tax on local share of digital advertising for companies grossing $1 billion or more

Family and platoon mates of the late Staff Sgt. Christopher Potts, a Tiverton resident and Rhode Island National Guardsman killed in action in Iraq in 2004, are seen at a Feb. 6, 2025, hearing on a bill seeking to rename the Sakonnet River Bridge to honor Potts.

Bill Would Rename Sakonnet River Bridge in Honor of Tiverton Soldier Killed in Iraq War

More than a dozen veterans and their family members showed up at a Thursday hearing of the Rhode Island House Committee on Special Legislation to support…

Buses owned by First Student, a nationwide transportation company and one of increasingly few competitors in Rhode Island’s statewide school bus system, are seen on East Main Road in Portsmouth.

School Transportation Legislative Study Panel Seeks Public Input

The public can give oral testimony during the commission’s meeting, which is scheduled for 3:45 p.m. Monday in the House Lounge or written testimony via email

A therapist's office at Enso Counseling Group in Concord.

How One Massachusetts Therapist is Helping Her Immigrant Clients Cope With This Political Moment

Since the year started, therapist Mayrena Guerrero has noticed her patients feeling a state of fear, uncertainty, and anxiety.“It feels like the pandemic,…

Providence Will Be the Backdrop to Upcoming Hearing in Federal Funding Freeze Lawsuit

Attorneys offered a glimpse of what’s to come in the federal lawsuit challenging the federal funding freeze during a virtual status conference in U.S.…

A 1910 watercolor portrait of Belle da Costa Greene by Laura Coombs Hills.

The Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Passing as White

“Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.”With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself…

A teen was murdered in 1985. A new book tracks the case through a broken legal system

Catch the Devil by journalist Pamela Colloff highlights the potentially fatal consequences of a system more concerned with securing convictions than determining the truth and delivering justice.

Wendy Gomes (right) looks through canned and dry goods at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Newport.

SNAP shutdown leaves 145,000 Rhode Islanders facing food insecurity as Nov. 1 deadline looms

USDA says it will not send out food stamp money in November due to the federal shutdown. Now, Rhode Islanders are grappling with how to make ends meet

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