Strangers streamed into the milling villages within Scituate, Rhode Island in the summer of 1915. Arriving by train and in jet-black...

A winding row of white stanchions. A blocky biker figure painted into the asphalt. Some new white divider lines. And that’s about it. The...

When a Brown student walks into the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center (OMAC), the mass COVID-19 testing site on campus, they begin a highly...

A group of Providence students and parents just made national news by suing Rhode Island. They allege that the state’s failure to provide...

Although America’s opioid epidemic is already killing formerly incarcerated individuals at staggering rates, prison and jails across the...

Horace Mann, a champion of public schools and a Brown alumnus, dubbed education the “great equalizer of the conditions of men.” However,...

There is no denying that Providence is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis: For the 40 percent of Rhode Island residents who are...

On an April evening earlier this year, women wearing scarlet cloaks filed into the Rhode Island State House, oversized bonnets obscuring...

As the opioid epidemic rages on, lawmakers have become increasingly pressured to pass legislation that will resolve one of America’s most...

At the beginning of the 2018 school year, Providence teachers entered work-to-rule status as a bargaining tactic for a new contract....

No state escaped deindustrialization, but some weathered it better than others. Rhode Island was not one of those states. At the turn of...

Court debt and bus fares are nothing more than a mild annoyance for most Rhode Islanders: a transaction accepted without second thought...

Use BPR’s Legislator Guide to learn more about your legislators and other legislators in the state. You can use the tool below to find a...

Over the last few years, the gambling industry in the Northeast has been gradually expanding into new states, creating fierce competition...

On a hot July afternoon, Brian Fallon, the Clinton campaign’s national press secretary, made his way to the Rhode Island Democratic Party...

A cluster of third-graders, clad in khakis and blue polos, sit for lunch facing a world map marked with notecards on dozens of countries,...

In 2013, 28 percent of Rhode Island’s 1800 foster children were living in congregate care institutions, group homes in which children do...

From an aerial perspective, the City of Providence is distinctively marked by a 20-acre strip of dirt and grass cutting through the city....

Much to the dismay of environmentalists, progressives, and worried citizens, the national political climate remains frozen on climate...

Though more than 60 years have passed since the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, many school districts are still...