This is The Public’s Radio, I’m James Baumgartner. At a time when the longstanding friendship between the US and Canada is fraught with a trade war sparked by the Trump administration, a Rhode Island ...

The Museum of the American Revolution recently loaned “Brave Men as Ever Fought,” a portrait commemorating the First Rhode ...

Bills recently introduced in the General Assembly would make it harder to take books off of public shelves by requiring that ...

Rhode Island’s oldest functioning courthouse is, in fact, the Kent County Courthouse in East Greenwich. Constructed in 1804, ...

For 10 years, the Rev. Jamie P. Washam has been posting inspirational, provocative, and amusing messages outside the church founded by Roger Williams in 1638.

The film depicts the life of Roger Williams, a man who fled England to escape religious persecution and sought to establish a colony in America based on the principles of freedom of conscience and ...

Greystone provided $29.9 million in bridge financing for the acquisition of a six-facility portfolio in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, a 300-bed New York ...

There are plenty of ways to celebrate the Fourth of July from cookouts to hitting the beach and so much more, but across ...

A home on Cooneymus Road on Block Island is the top-selling home this week. It sold for $4,400,000. The home has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, 5,501 square feet of living space, and is on ...

These included stealing from a house in the amount of forty ... Hanging was the usual sentence. Rhode Island was probably the only colony which decreased the number of capital crimes in the ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — New legislation would allow for romance behind prison walls in Rhode Island. The proposal would legalize conjugal visits for inmates. Conjugal visits, alone time for a ...

Erin Stevenson leads tours at the Rhode Island State House, sharing its history and showcasing artifacts like the original Royal Charter. The tours, offered twice daily, guide visitors through ...