Why a corner of Providence's East Side has four names; and a debate over desktop flags and a dress code in the State House.

The company has two hospitals in Rhode Island caring for thousands of the state’s most vulnerable patients. Here are answers to questions from patients and observers about how to navigate the bankruptcy.

Ocean State residents with connections to Los Angeles are speaking about how surreal the obliteration is in the midst of the destructive wildfires.

As wildfires continue to devastate communities across Southern California, local nonprofit groups are mobilizing to provide relief to those affected.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and attorneys general from 10 other Democratic-led states on Thursday said the Trump administration could not “commandeer” state and local law enforcement for its federal immigration enforcement efforts.

Rhode Island hosts the Loyola Chicago Ramblers after Sophie Phillips scored 20 points in Rhode Island's 60-58 win against the UMass Minutewomen

Oregon began levying a $22.50 fee in 2025 on consumers who buy a mattress. It’s the fourth state to adopt such a policy, to help fund recycling efforts.

Officials say Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital are operating, but the state’s health care system does not have the capacity to absorb their patients if they were forced to close.

California joins New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin,

Though the board is allowed to take “political and social considerations” into account, it said the recent proposal did not meet standards for divestment.

Until the order, which Trump signed the same day he was inaugurated as the 47th president, the U.S. government has, at least the late 1800s, considered the child of any immigrant born on U.S. soil an automatic citizen, even to a mother in the United States illegally.

Donald Trump’s Justice Department cited an archaic statute in a legal filing Wednesday, arguing that the president’s executive order ending constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship should be totally kosher, since the children of Native Americans weren’t historically considered citizens, either.