Over the last two decades, Rhode Island voters have approved five bonds totaling $310 million aimed at making housing more affordable, but now Gov. Daniel J. McKee is saying the state needs $120 ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked up in November in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated, while consumers spent at a healthy pace. Consumer prices rose 2.8% in ...

It’s going to be a “gangbusters” year for the consumer in 2026 as income generated from labor begins to outperform the financial markets, a reversal of the trend that has held for several years. That ...

The median single-family home sale price in Rhode Island in 2025 was $499,000, a 5.31% increase year over year, the Rhode Island Association of Realtors said on Thursday.  The number of sales in the ...

It’s been no small potatoes that Rhode Islanders have been able to choose the image of Mr. Potato Head as a specialty license plate for decades. Yet with Hasbro’s decision to move its ...

Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December was 4.3%, same as November, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training said Thursday.  The U.S. unemployment rate was 4.4% in December, ...

The former CEO and chief operating officer of a medical device company has been indicted on charges of securities and health care fraud, according to interim U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island Charles C.