An exterminator inspects the State House after rats popped up last week in two offices.

Two Senate leaders talk about the issues facing the General Assembly.

Legislative leaders in Rhode Island hope to pass legislation banning indoor prostitution next week.

House lawmakers will delay their return to Rhode Island’s State House until early October instead of meeting next week.

The husband of Rhode Island Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed has died of cancer.

State lawmakers in Rhode Island will return to the State House the first week of September to finish business from earlier this summer.

Times may be tough, but Rhode Island’s lawmakers aren’t going hungry.

Rhode Island Senate President Teresa
Paiva-Weed is leaving her job at a Middletown law firm to devote
more time at the State House.

Gov. Don Carcieri plans to release details on how Rhode Island will use its federal stimulus funding to make transportation improvements.

Gov. Don Carcieri is coming under fire for his plans for the federal stimulus money.

Rhode Island lawmakers return to the State House next week.

Will you pay more to smoke?

Gov. Don Carcieri faults the incoming Senate president for hiring a chief of staff with a salary up to $135,000.

Teresa Paiva-Weed is poised to become the next Rhode Island Senate president.

The battle for leadership of the state Senate may be over.