Linda Ujifusa, a Portsmouth Democrat, first won election to the Rhode Island Senate in 2022. As a progressive woman, she exemplifies how the General Assembly has changed over the last 10 years.

Forty-five tiny cabins assembled off Route 146 in Providence in February 2024 to temporarily shelter people experiencing ...

Rhode Island has a strong legislature that ... On six other occasions, he was present but did not preside over the Senate. Other lawmakers took his place standing at the rostrum and running ...

But being president of the Rhode Island senate doesn’t come with the nuclear codes, and the state government will be fully functional whether Ruggerio is present or not. Still, within the ...

While the Senate already has a dress code more than one House lawmaker proposed including one for their chamber this session.

I asked State Senator Jake Bissaillon ... I am looking for an honest assessment of the current challenges facing Rhode Island’s response to homelessness, a clear plan to immediately address ...

Visibly frail and alarmingly thin, Ruggerio can barely bang the gavel and accidentally failed to vote for himself as ...

PROVIDENCE – While some of Rhode Island's more "progressive" lawmakers ... wants to beef up the House dress code. The Senate already has a dress code that survived a 2021 challenge by a new ...

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...

Still, the chaotic 48 hours suggested that some in the Trump administration had overestimated their ability to impose ...

But several Democratic senators ... Whitehouse of Rhode Island referenced Kash Patel, Trump’s controversial pick to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the current director ...