North Kingstown News

GRAND AWARD: Newport architect, Gale Goff of Estes/Twombly Architects, received the Grand Award from Custom Home Magazine in a recent design competition.

A state advisory council on refugees and immigrants yesterday handed Governor Deval Patrick a long list of policy recommendations for better integrating immigrants in Massachusetts.

A Rhode Island man has died while working at the Electric Boat submarine plant in North Kingstown, R.I. North Kingstown police said Wednesday that the 31-year-old worker, who was not identified, had been using a transport device to move a section of steel outside.

After a two-year struggle, the House of Representatives passed an open records bill that supporters say did more to weaken the law than strengthen it.

CRANSTON, R.I.a 'With cities and towns all across Southern New England devastated by the recession, more residents will have travel to see Fourth of July fireworks displays.

Two beaches closed this week for poor water quality have been reopened, leaving none closed as the weekend begins.

A Rhode Island native is flying the Air Force's premier fighter plane at this weekend's air show in North Kingstown.

The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is reminding motorists that they should take the new Route 403 highway to this weekend's R.I. National Guard Open House and Air Show .

Taking the news pulse of Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts, by Providence Journal and projo.com staff, from 7 to 7, every business day Projo.com photo by Pamela Reinsel Cotter A juvenile fisher cat hides in a North Kingstown tree Sunday, part of a litter of 3 with its mother that roamed the Quidnessett neighborhood.

A pair of former Chrysler LLC dealerships has filed an appeal of a bankruptcy judge's order terminating their franchises and those of more than 700 others as part of Chrysler's restructuring plan.

Agenda On Monday, July 20, beginning at 7:15am, the Quidnessett Country Club in North Kingstown is home to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's 8th Annual Tee Up to Cure Diabetes Golf Classic, which Neigborhood: includes an exciting golf tournament, dinner, and live auction.

As Rhode Island moves to expand its renewable energy market, lobbyists at the Statehouse are finding the debate provides a different form of green power: cash.

Do you remember former Red Sox slugger Sam Horn? He was the Sox No. 1 draft pick back in 1982.

A 37-year-old woman who, the police say, was receiving large packages of marijuana at her home in North Kingstown, and an alleged Jamaican drug trafficker living in Providence to whom she was giving the drugs, were arrested Friday on drug charges.

On Friday, June 12, 2009, members of the Rhode Island State Police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Unit, along with uniformed Troopers from the Wickford Barracks, arrested Orville G. Watson, age 31, of 119 Alger Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island, for possession of marijuana - over 5-kilograms, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, ...

The Navy Blue Angels and the Canadian Air Force Snowbirds will be the featured attraction of this year's R.I. National Guard Air Show , the organization announced Monday morning.

Fresh Mode Screen Printing, a custom printer and embroider of clothing and apparel, attracts new clientele with an offer to save 12% on first orders.

Airport officials this week led local lawmakers on a tour of Quonset State Airport, showing off a new terminal and hangar and previewing additional planned improvements, including a new taxiway.

Rhode Island's drinking water supplies should become more dependable over time, thanks to a complicated piece of legislation that appears destined for passage soon by the General Assembly .

It is, of course, difficult to attach a single sound to a city. And Providence is no exception.