Rhode Island News

State tax collections plunged over the last four months, yet another sign that Rhode Island's economy is going nowhere fast.

Unemployed Rhode Islanders can now collect jobless benefits for up to 99 weeks. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law that gives 14 more weeks of benefits to the unemployed, and an additional 20 weeks of benefits to people out of work in high-unemployment states like Rhode Island.

With school based vaccination clinics starting this week in Rhode Island, the news of another child's death from the H1N1 flu brings the stark reality of the possible effects from the H1N1 Swine flu.

And the vote could have some impact in Rhode Island which, until yesterday, was the only New England state that failed to recognize same-sex marriage.

State Rep. Gordon Fox could become the state's first openly gay House Speaker if he succeeds William Murphy in Nov.

Rhode Island is now the last state in the country to ban prostitution. Last Wednesday and Thursday the Rhode Island House and Senate voted respectively to close an almost 30-year loophole in the statea s law that banned prostitution outdoors, but allowed it indoors.

A survey has found that more than half of Rhode Island voters favor a law allowing gay marriage.

Gov. Don Carcieri will sign legislation closing a loophole making Rhode Island the only state besides parts of Nevada that allows indoor prostitution.

The Rhode Island Association of Fire Chiefs is urging Rhode Islanders to change the batteries in their smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors when they turn back their clocks this Sunday at 2 a.m. In 53 percent of the reported fires in homes equipped with smoke alarms, the devices did not work, most often because of missing, disconnected or ...

To help track H1N1 trends, Rhode Island health officials are receiving electronic prescription data to identify outbreaks based on age groups and ZIP codes.

If you're doing some estate planning - for yourself or a loved one - be aware of a big change coming for Rhode Island's estate tax.

Rhode Island would close a loophole allowing prostitutes to ply their trade indoors under new legislation approved by state lawmakers.The bill approved Thursday would make prostitution a misdemeanor offense regardless of where it occurs.

U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse met recently with members of Combined Joint Task Force 82 at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, including, from left, Eric Bynes, a Marine and a Providence native who grew up in Detroit; U.S. Army Capt.

The 12-year-old Bristol girl who died earlier this week did have the H1N1 flu virus, Gov.

Rhode Islanders may get a chance to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name over its ties to colonial slavery.

The key to northern Rhode Island's future prosperity rests with a successful commuter rail system, said state and local officials Monday.

If federal forecasts are correct, it will cost Rhode Islanders about as much to heat their homes this winter as it did last winter.

Several hundred participants gathered at Roger Williams Memorial Park in Providence on Sunday, Oct.

Lawmakers could soon close a loophole making Rhode Island the only state beside Nevada that permits indoor prostitution.

Health officials are investigating how a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong part of a patient's hand, the hospital's fifth wrong-site surgery since 2007.