Rhode Island is advertising for a new child advocate.

Keith Stokes will lead the agency for one year.

The transportation department has purchased land in North Kingstown to support a planned commuter rail line extension connecting to Boston.

Top Rhode Island lawmakers have not decided whether they will try to overturn the governor’s veto of legislation that would allow same-sex couples to plan the funerals of their late partners.

Local leaders in the state’s Republican party say they want former Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey to run for governor.

Chevron will develop and maintain several wind turbines in the coastal town of Narragansett.

The mayor of Providence and the governor battle over cuts in state aid.

A Rhode Island housing official says Gov. Don Carcieri wants the state housing agency to buy surplus state land to help close a $225-million budget gap.

Gov. Don Carcieri has proposed cutting nearly $4 million meant to help Rhode Island hospitals care for the poor during a deep recession.

Lawmakers want to hear how Rhode Island’s court and higher education systems plan to cut costs to deal with a growing state budget deficit.

Health officials have proposed new rules governing how up to three medical marijuana stores would operate in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island’s largest public employees labor union is denouncing Gov. Don Carcieri’s deficit elimination plan as the “wrong idea at the wrong time.“

The state education commissioner Deborah Gist says Rhode Island is still in the race for $100 million in federal education grants, despite a budget crisis.

Local cities and towns will have to bear some of the burden of the budget ax.

The governor proposes closing a ballooning budget deficit with about $125 million in cuts.