Bill Seymour

Gov. Dan McKee froze charter school growth for three years but he stopped short of commissioning the kind of independent, rigorous study that might actually fix what’s broken.

Diane Hepburn is pictured on the back deck of her family’s beach house in Breakwater Village in 1999. Hepburn was one of several local residents to reflect this week on social media on their memories growing up in summer beach cottages in Southern Rhode Island.

A fight is brewing for local state Senate and House seats with old rivals gearing up for round two or three, newcomers itching to unseat sitting lawmakers, and a telling number of incumbents cruising toward Election Day without any opposition.

A fight is brewing for local state Senate and House seats with old rivals gearing up for round two or three, newcomers itching to unseat sitting lawmakers, and a telling number of incumbents cruising toward Election Day without any opposition.

Rhode Island beachgoers may one day get a shark-attack warning on their phones under a new federal law.

Governor Dan McKee, in a letter to town and Quonset Development Corporation officials, has raised the prospect of closing odor-producing businesses at and around the QDC business park, but he

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — Governor Dan McKee, in a letter to town and Quonset Development Corporation officials, has raised the prospect of closing odor-producing businesses at and around the QDC business park, but he doesn’t explain the benchmark for taking such action.

A drought and a water ban have put South County's ideal turfgrass under new scrutiny.

A drought and a water ban have put South County’s ideal turfgrass under new scrutiny.

One question on a local social media page produced a familiar civic split that is often asked, though answers offer twists of their own about “the right direction.”