Columnist Mark Patinkin ponders new names for Rhode Island and it's cities and towns as the Gulf of Mexico gets renamed.

Feb. events include the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading, and a free PPAC program celebrating musician ...

More:There's lots to miss on an ever-changing Thayer Street ... that put RI on the map To the southeast of Down City, there’s a necklace of towns that don’t quite qualify as Le Newport ...

Black history runs deep and wide in Rhode Island ... Burrillville to Newport, you’ll learn a wealth of information about the lives of Black Rhode Islanders with this map marked with houses ...

Hotel director of operations Charlie Holder is the new mayor of Newport and the chair of the city’s board of license ...

“We can confirm that a targeted federal immigration action did take place … in the vicinity of Thames Street and Cotton Court,” Tom Shevlin, a spokesperson for the City of Newport, wrote in ...

Nestled just steps from the waterfront, Thames Street has been Newport's main commercial drag ... acts as the final resting place of some of the city's earliest settlers. Thames Street is free ...

There are now six town maps, located at Lord Lois Library, Newport Bus Station, Chapel Street Carpark, Post Office Lane and Quay Street. The map was created seven years ago by Alan Rowe and took ...

"The space that we have right now is good, it's just not big enough for us, and for the job we need to do for the City ... Street is also in a flood zone, what used to be Newport's basin.