Rhode Island, like the rest of the nation, will receive zero federal funding to restore beach sand when storms sweep it away. In recent years, the damage done has been severe. And the impact has been costly. Sometimes the bill has been in the millions.

The City of Providence’s Camp Cronin in Narragansett has been mired in controversy in recent years.

By GoLocalProv — Community members -- and Providence mayoral candidates — are decrying the move by RIPTA to cancel this year’s express beach runs from the state’s urban core to south county

By Edward Renehan — …let us leave the membership of Bailey’s to their kelp and their illusions of isolated superiority. And let us congratulate them once more on their bold decision to leave three hot dog selling high schoolers alone.