Rhode Island's only Tall Ship will be towed from Newport to Providence next week for steel and mechanical work.

In the days after his daughter was rushed to the hospital, Rachin McCoy told at least two people - a cousin and a police detective - that he was standing on a couch in his Newport living room, throwing the infant in the air playfully and catching her when he missed and dropped the six-week-old child on the floor.

" A historic 19th-century home in the city has sold for $1.5 million, one-third less than the listed price of $2.2 million.

New England lobstermen are bracing for potential bait shortages next summer after fishery managers voted to slash the amount of herring that can be caught next year.

Wonders on the waterfront in Newport, R. I. A tour of the Newport Mansions might include The Breakers .

Pictured on Friday, Nov. 6, during Benny's grand opening celebration are from left, Matthew Bromberg, Arnold Bromberg, Howard Bromberg, Malcom Bromberg, Judy Rosenstein, Scott Bromberg and Sam Bromberg.

Annapolis and Newport, R.I., may argue over which city is the nation's sailing capital, but the two waterfront towns are now working together to pursue tourism business for both destinations.

The creak and groan of moving sea ice reverberated through the fiberglass hull of Sprague Theobald's 57-foot Nordhavn power boat Bagan in mid-August as it sat somewhere in the Northwest Passage, high above the Arctic Circle.

Adam Schefter answers readers' questions nearly every day in his blog. On Thursday, he's hitting the growing pile in the bag eyeing the looming showdown between the Colts and the Patriots.

Friends of Wolfeboro Town Hall presented the Wolfeboro Board of Selectmen with a new plan for the renovation of Brewster Hall, one that provides the same amount of space for a little more than half the cost.

It was the roll of a lifetime. Hundreds of amateur sushi chefs at the University of California, Berkeley got their hands fishy Sunday as they assembled a 330-foot California roll.

General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics , has been awarded a $22.2 million contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to support the Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System Next Generation program.

In this view, pointing toward the stern, the bow splits two dolphins headed to either side of the boat.

Older homes are often thought of as having charm that can't be beat by the sleek modernism of contemporary today.

The state Health Department has confirmed that the middle-aged woman who died Monday had swine flu, and swine flu was the cause of death.