The Heritage Restaurant Group announced Thursday that it will acquire Scales & Shells, the seafood restaurant at 527/537 Thames St., which has been a downtown Newport fixture for nearly 40 years. The ...

State and local dignitaries opened the doors to a new apartment and commercial space, called Shipyard Flats, on Washington ...

In a move that outraged folk purists, Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. But was the crowd's anger really about the guitar?

The annual event, which sources pumpkins from a program collaboration with the Navajo Nation, raises funds for the church and ...

Some retirees may prefer the city, but many others are looking for simpler lives and stunning scenery. Here's why these New ...

Hundreds of runners took over the Newport Pell Bridge for the run. The four-mile race kicked off in Jamestown and went over ...

America’s first resort town has more to offer than world-class sailing and ‘summering’ as a verb. From seaside saunas on the ...

The Business Journals evaluated almost 33,200 national ZIP codes to compile an overall index of America's wealthiest ZIP codes. Intended to capture the greatest con ...

Historic Bowen’s Wharf in downtown Newport, will host the 34th annual Bowen’s Wharf Seafood Festival, on Saturday and Sunday, ...

Early risers across Aquidneck Island and Conanicut Island should prepare for traffic detours and delays this Sunday morning as 4,000 runners take to the Claiborne Pell Bridge for the sold-out Citizens ...

Of the over 17,500 entries from Rhode Island listed on the National Register of Historic Places, over 60 are in Newport ...

Discover autumn sailing, regattas, vineyards, seafood & harvest fairs in Newport, Rhode Island during mid-October.