The Rhode Island General Assembly meets for a little over six months a year, and most of the activity happens in the final ...

New Senate President Valarie Lawson asks Ethics Commission if there are conflicts with her day job as NEARI president.

Six Rhode Islanders − 4 Democrats, 1 Republican and 1 independent − have declared themselves candidates for the North ...

While McKee remains unpopular, according to the poll, a Republican victory in the state may not be an easy feat, given the state's Democratic lean. It backed Vice President Kamala Harris by nearly 14 ...

In addition to lawmakers elected to represent them, some RI cities and towns also hire lobbyists to represent them in the ...

A reader told me of a Rhode Island milestone that reminds of what we’ve lost as a nation politically. John Chafee, the state’s legendary Republican senator who served from the mid-1970s to the ...

Former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee’s exploration of a presidential run has been met with a mix of bewilderment and derision in his home state. The Providence Journal, in a stinging ...

The mother of former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee has died. Virginia Coates Chafee passed away of natural causes at her home in Warwick on Saturday, according to a statement from her family.

His great-great grandfather was Henry Lippitt, the 33rd governor of Rhode Island; his great-great uncle Charles Warren Lippitt ’1865 was the 44th governor. His father, John Chafee, served as the 66th ...

Democrats ramp up Iowa fight as new poll shows almost 3-way tie for first 02:03. Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican senator and Democratic governor of Rhode Island, filed to run for president as ...

Chafee died 20 years ago today of heart failure while he was still in office, but his legacy has lived on through a deep roster of former aides who moved on to shape Rhode Island in a variety of ways.