A complaint has been filed with the Rhode Island Secretary of State and the Portsmouth Canvassing Department is looking into reports of a group giving out altered sample ballots outside a Portsmouth ...

Pushing her 2-year-old daughter Piper in a stroller, Jill Lepore-Oylers entered the voting room at the Newport Public Library ...

Nathan Anthony Kivlehan, 32, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away on November 1, 2024 after a short but hard fought battle with cancer. Nate was born in Newport, Rhode Island on November 8, 1991 ...

Ann Louise Garvey-Morgan, 84 of Portsmouth passed away at home, surrounded by those who love her. Born on June 13, 1940 in Tiverton, RI., she was the daughter of the late Callanan P. Garvey and ...

Racist. Sexist. Misogynistic. Homophobic. Transphobic. Xenophobic. A wanna-be dictator. Authoritarian. Fascist. Hitleresque. Emotionally unhinged. Mentally unstable ...

The Newport Daily News reached out to state Senate candidates in contested races to learn more about why they are running for office and their position on key issues. Questions were sent via email and ...

Marilyn Claire Sullivan Hostetler of Portsmouth, Rhode Island passed away on October 30 after a brief illness, surrounded by family. She was 69 years old. She was the beloved wife of her high school ...

Mary Agnes Roderick, 83, of Newport, RI, died on October 30, 2024. Born in Newport, RI on July 22, 1941, she was the daughter of the late Lawrence and Albertina (Furtado) Shaffell. A lifelong ...

Susan Dwyer Wallace, age 83, of Newport, passed away on October 29, 2024. Born in Newport, she was the daughter of the late Timothy J. Dwyer and Hellen K. (Kelly) Dwyer. She is survived by her husband ...

Thomas J. Blisko, 79, of Tiverton, RI, passed away at home on October 28, 2024. Thomas was born in Newport, RI, to the late Thomas G. and Elizabeth H. (Schenkel) Blisko. He grew up on the Aquidneck ...