Charlestown News

The Big Top is about to be raised. The Big Apple Circus is in Rhode Island for the next week and they are scheduled to put up the giant tent on Tuesday at Ninigret Park in Charlestown.

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The state Department of Environmental Management has announced that two coastal ponds in South County are closed to shellfish harvesting as of noon Thursday until further notice.

Sudden, severe thunderstorms have flooded roads in Westerly and Charlestown, downed trees and caused lightning strikes.

A South Kingstown firefighter who was critically injured Monday while working on a ladder truck at the Kingston Fire District has died, a fire department spokesman announced.

Richard Mende had no problem keeping pace with his daughters in a bicycle ride that spanned 150 miles over two days.

Steve Wright has nothing but praises for Rhode Island's picturesque state beaches, its manicured parks and serene campgrounds and nature trails.

Brendan Richards, pictured, caught bass drifting eels aboard the charter boat L'il Toot in the Rip at the northern end of Block Island this week.

A number of witnesses testified that they saw former Charlestown Town Council President James M. Mageau slap a video camera held by a critic of the official, as testimony concluded Wednesday in the simple assault trial stemming from a 2008 incident.

Got a problem with Japanese knotweed? Dandelions? Autumn olive? Before his foraging walks, Massachusetts naturalist Russ Cohen, author of Wild Plants I Have Known and Eaten, serves fruit leather made with autumn olive berries.

Winman Junior High School teacher Thalia Wood is the Rhode Island History Day Teacher of Merit.

South County state beaches will officially open to swimming on weekends starting Saturday, according to the state Department of Environmental Management .

Last fall, the congregation of Long Plain United Methodist welcomed the Rev. Harry Rix to the church.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence had fallen behind on its utility payments, leading National Grid to cut power to its Fox Point headquarters -- which also houses a youth center, a swimming pool, a city branch library and a senior center -- Wednesday afternoon.

State officials compiled a long list of concerns over building a new cottage on the shrub-covered, beachfront property in the tony Quonochontaug summer colony.

State officials compiled a long list of concerns over building a new cottage on the shrub-covered, beachfront property in the tony Quonochontaug summer colony.

PROVIDENCE: The House Judiciary Committee Thursday evening swiftly approved a bill to criminalize prostitution that occurs indoors, with a full vote on the House floor expected as early as next week.

A harp seal rescued from a Norwich parking lot last month has been returned to the ocean today.

If drinking and driving don't mix, then neither do drinking, driving and text-messaging. That in effect was what the police said on Monday after charging a man with rear-ending a police cruiser and injuring its operator.

Apr. 18--Rhode Island's food-service and hotel industries took in less money in February than they did the same month a year ago, based on reports from tax officials.