Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every now and again a part of a state gets it in their collective head that they would be better off as their own state. Take New ...

NEW SHOREHAM – A year ago, favorable winds and waves assisted firefighters from Block Island and mainland Rhode Island in sparing the island’s historic downtown from being destroyed by the fire that ...

It's not a secret in Rhode Island, but now U.S. News and World Report is telling everyone that Block Island is one of the “Best Underrated Travel Destinations in the U.S.” The media company ranked the ...

Two people were flown to a hospital after a house on Block Island collapsed with five people inside following an apparent explosion on Saturday. Police in New Shoreham, Rhode Island, say they started ...

NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. (WPRI) — Federal investigators arrived on Block Island Thursday to begin piecing together the events that led to a small plane crash which left one person dead and two others ...

Every now and again a part of a state gets it in their collective head that they would be better off as their own state. Take New York. Over and over again since the 1990s, bills have been introduced ...