PORTSMOUTH – A light drizzle pattered into the sandy pine barrens of Prudence Island, one of the only places in the state where prickly pear cactus grows indigenously. Prudence is one of those places ...

PORTSMOUTH — To the east, on one side of Narragansett Bay, in Bristol, a ferry’s engines thrum. To the west, the sun races for tree lines over Warwick and East Greenwich. Nancy Howland is right in the ...

Local Police Departments and the Rhode Island Department of emergency management are gearing up for a busy weekend on Narragansett Bay. Thousands of boaters are heading out to Potters Cove by Prudence ...

Guided by the comments of more than 3,000 New England boaters and advocates, the U.S. Coast Guard has scaled back plans to ...

Prudence Island has the only operational one-room schoolhouse in Rhode Island, but no students are enrolled this year. A single senior graduated from the Prudence Island School last year, and the ...

The owner of the ferry service that connects Prudence Island to the mainland said he will not end the service in December, as he had announced in the spring. The Newport Daily News reported that Bruce ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WPRI) — Smoke filled the skies over Narragansett Bay Thursday night as firefighters from around the state battled a fire that destroyed three homes on Prudence Island. The fire broke ...

(WJAR) — A boil water advisory on Prudence Island is now entering its sixth year after delays have slowed the installation of a chlorination system and have caused the estimated cost of the project to ...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WPRI) — The U.S. Coast Guard has called off the search for a Prudence Island ferry rider who went overboard Monday evening. The search for the missing 39-year-old Prudence Island ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WHDH) - Police have identified the Rhode Island woman whose body was found three days after she fell off the Prudence Island Ferry into Narragansett Bay. Laura Ward, 39, of Prudence ...