“Democrats need to decide if they’re going to support funding legislation that came over from the House, or if they’re going ...

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, the new co-chairs of the R.I. Black, Latino, Indigenous, Asian-American and Pacific ...

A group of Senators is looking to open the RI sports betting market to more sportsbooks than just the lottery's offering.

The 76-year-old Ruggerio has missed four of the eight weekly Senate sessions so far this year, and will be staying in the ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s wife, Sandra Whitehouse, has long worked with, and been compensated by, a nonprofit that got ...

PROVIDENCE – Senate President Dominick Ruggerio is home from Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, where he has spent most of the last month. The 76-year-old Ruggerio had been hospitalized since Feb. 19 with ...

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) defied House Democratic leadership Tuesday when he voted for the GOP’s bill to avert a government ...

Some fear the Pell Grant, the popular college aid program created by a Rhode Island senator, could be in jeopardy amid massive upheaval in Washington.

State Senator Alana DiMario of Narragansett is a mental health counselor who first won election in 2020. She’s one of a number of progressive policy-oriented Democratic women lawmakers who have moved ...

Many of the bills on the priority list of the Rhode Island Black, Latino, Indigenous, Asian-American and Pacific Islander (RIBLIA) Caucus are not technically new, only updated versions of bills that ...

The kudos came from the senators who sit on the rules committee and others, including Steven Brown, executive director of the ACLU of Rhode Island, who said the House move in this direction has ...

At a standing-room only hearing, more than 180 customers of Rhode Island Energy complained about their skyrocketing bills this winter.