Twenty years ago, the smallest state was at risk of becoming a little smaller. A new, high-tech survey of the border by North Stonington found that the 19th-century surveys of the border were just ...

Protesters wave the Palestinian and Lebanese flags on the steps to the Rhode Island State House on March 17, 2025. Getty Images Buses pass by Providence City Hall on May 28, 2020.

Gov. Dan McKee has ordered that the U.S. and Rhode Island state flags be flown at half-staff, "in memory of the victims of the horrific shooting in Lewiston, Maine.". The flags should be lowered ...

Not long after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that Rhode Island will no longer be stopping New Yorkers at the border, the governor of Rhode Island said the order was instead expanded ...

How was the Rhode Island-Connecticut border established? Getting back to Connecticut, that strip of land along the Pawcatuck River was the subject of quarreling for years. Advertisement.

How was the Rhode Island-Massachusetts border established? After well over 70 years of disputes about the Massachusetts border, in 1741 the Royal Commissioners finally brought the border to the ...