The rocky road to restoring Newport’s Cliff Walk has cleared a significant obstacle after the city secured permission from Rhode Island coastal regulators. The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) approved a revised repair plan at its meeting Tuesday. The unanimous vote, made with little discussion, paves the way to restore the public walking […]

A 3.6% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) announced Wednesday is welcome news for older Americans facing higher prices for everyday essentials like groceries, utilities and health care. But new AARP polling finds most people feel they would need a 5% to 7% increase just to keep up with inflation, which hit 3.7% in September. Powered […]

Rhode Island’s two-month pause on new automated license plate reader installations is set to expire Monday, the same day State Police may be ready to announce new policies governing the surveillance technology. Lt. Col. Erik Yanyar, a State Police spokesperson, said officials were making final edits to the policy as of Thursday. But advocacy groups […]

Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed.

Roughly 55 percent of Massachusetts adults who have opioid use disorder and are enrolled in MassHealth will need to satisfy new federal work requirements outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The change, if implemented, would “dramatically and inaccurately favor southern states where many northern residents, sometimes called snowbirds, spend some or all of the months of December through March, despite spending a majority of their time voting in and paying taxes to northern states like Massachusetts," Jessie Partride Guerrero, director of data services at the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, testified.