Janine Weisman

Applications are now being accepted for the Rhode Island Press Association’s annual $1,000 scholarship competition, open to high school seniors or college students planning to pursue a career in journalism.

A Providence federal judge on Thursday offered a civics lesson along with his order stopping the Trump administration and federal agencies from blocking access to federal grants and aid.

Rhode Island’s Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Monday called the opposition of the United States to a United Nations resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine “a disgrace.”

Rhode Island’s U.S. Sen. Jack Reed blasted President Donald Trump’s firing of a number of senior U.S. military officers Friday night, including Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman CQ Brown Jr. and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, calling the dismissals politically charged.

The Rhode Island Ethics Commission voted 5-2 Tuesday to pursue changing state rules to include lobbyists among those who are banned from giving gifts over $25 to public employees and officials.

Here’s one way of looking at the broken pipe that interrupted Heather Hole Strout’s Monday morning: Thank goodness for small blessings. Because on any other winter day, a plumbing emergency would have meant chaos for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport where the schedule must run like clockwork.  On other winter […]

The number of new U.S. Coast Guard cutters destined to call Naval Station Newport home has doubled, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed announced Tuesday.

Gov. Dan McKee called the deadline given by hackers who installed malicious malware on the RIBridges system and demanded a ransom a “moving target” at a press conference late Saturday afternoon.

Three years after filing a wrongful arrest lawsuit against the city of Pawtucket and Rhode Island Department of Health over a flawed cold case investigation, John Monteiro has agreed to a $1 million settlement. Now he is looking to rebuild his life.

After a three-hour recount at the Rhode Island Board of Elections Thursday, Republican Christopher Paplauskas maintained his victory over Democrat Maria Bucci in Cranston’s House District 15 race. The recount was one of seven by the state elections panel, which also confronted a legal gap involving the Barrington Town Council race.