Newport News

Valentine's Day is Tuesday, and for many of us who are coupled up, it means we'll be enjoying a romantic dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants.

Researchers lower an underwater robot into Block Island Sound off the Westerly, R.I., coast Wednesday, Feb.

BankNewport Vice President and Newport Branch Manager, Jennifer Pratt joined Baby Steps President, Charles Shoemaker, MD for a recent Baby Steps session for children and parents held at the Florence Gray Center in Newport.A BankNewport extended a $5,000 grant to Baby Steps to expand its community outreach and program evaluation.

We've got the ocean, parks and picturesque, smooch-worthy gazebo A But which is the best place in Newport for a Valentine's Day liplock? Add your marker to this map to let us know where you think is the best place to kiss in Newport.

Naiad Inflatables Inc. of Newport said Thursday it has won a contract to build four support boats for Oracle Racing, the San Francisco-based racing team and America's Cup champion.

Clean Ocean Access will host its 44th coastal cleanup at Second Beach in Middletown this Saturday, February 11, noon to 2 p.m., according to Dave McLaughlin, head of the Newport-based nonprofit organization.

Apparently Pot Doesn't Count? A Providence woman had a bizarre interaction with Narragansett police that ended with her being charged with pot possession.

Newport Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for a missing Newport woman.

Luxury line Crystal says it has lined up a cadre of football Hall of Famers to mix-and-mingle with passengers this spring on an "NFL Legends" themed voyage.

This article is from a press release from the James L. Maher Center. Clients from the James L. Maher Center , on Aquidneck Ave., in Middletown, are well represented at the Ninth Annual Paul V. Sherlock Memorial Art Show.

Stephanie Igoe, administrator of the Mount St. Rita Health Centre on Sumner Brown Road, is speaking out against a new flat-rate "price-based Medicaid reimbursement plan" proposed by the Rhode Island Office of Health and Human Services that she says would create a "devastating financial blow" to her facility and others.

The Aquidneck Island Planning Commission has released the first comprehensive census of the island's open space, including farmland, recreation areas, schools, and vacant land.

For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.

The Kent County Grand Jury Wednesday indicted Jack Gregson, 61, of 171 Fairway Drive, Coventry, on charges of sexual assault and indecent solicitation of a child.

The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority has voted to increase tolls on the Pell Bridge as of July 1 unless a separate new toll proposed by the governor for the Sakonnet River Bridge is approved by state lawmakers.

Tiverton police reportedly found pot, open beer cans and a weapon on a Newport man driving on Route 24 on Super Bowl Sunday.

Jamie L. Intwala, of 58 Allston Ave., Middletown, was arrested at approximately 2 p.m., Thurs., Feb.

Reggae star Ziggy Marley will open the Nantucket Nectars Sunset Music Series on June 29 at 7 p.m., organizers said in a statement released Tuesday.

The last pieces of equipment from a barge that sank adjacent to the Pell Bridge in a December storm have been recovered from the bottom of Narragansett Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Tuesday.

The Newport Historical Society has purchased an 1821 letter from a former slave who became one of Newport's most notable free African-American citizens.