The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has issued an air quality alert for Wednesday, July 15, as bands of ...

People’s Credit Union will host a free Community Shred Day on Saturday, July 25, from 9 a.m. to noon at its newly relocated ...

Nancy Lavin, Rhode Island Current July 14, 2026 More than four years after a section of Newport’s Cliff Walk collapsed, ...

The Jane Pickens Theater has announced three new shows from Spectacle Live this fall and winter, with tickets going on sale ...

Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled ...

The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a free concert of favorites from theater, film and classical music on the oceanside lawn of Rosecliff on Sunday, August 9, starting at 7 p.m. (The ...

The Community College of Rhode Island will host an Enrollment Day at its Newport County Campus on Thursday, July 16, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., offering prospective and returning students a one-stop ...

You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine will screen on Sunday, July 26. (The JPT) The Jane Pickens Theater is marking Newport’s folk music season with a four-event Sounds of Folk Series running ...

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Tanya Donelly was born on July 14, 1966 in Newport. Donelly co-founded Throwing Muses with ...

Despite cracked concrete, corroded steel, leaking expansion joints, broken anchor bolts, worn bearings, potholes and dozens of other deficiencies, the Mount Hope Bridge “continues to function as ...

Rhode Island composers have until Aug. 10 to apply for $30,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. Providence singer/songwriter Courtney Swain received one of the fellowships in 2021. [Photo ...

On July 13, 1948, former US Congressman and later Bryant University President Ron Machtley was born in Johnston, PA. Machtley attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the Navy from 1970-1975.