Advocates see room to improve shoreline access in Rhode Island, and are backing three bills in the General Assembly this year. Bills: S 716, sponsored by Sen. Victoria Gu, D-Charlestown, and H ...

COMMENTARY The Rhode Island Senate must act to preserve the shoreline The bill passed by the House is the best chance we have to remedy a problem 40 years in the making, says a professor at New ...

(The Center Square) — A Rhode Island judge says a law expanding public access along the state's coastline amounts to unconstitutional taking of private property without compensation. The ...

The maps are the product of what experts say is one of the most sophisticated models to project future damage from storm surges and sea level rise.

The fight over a 10-foot swath of sand along Rhode Island’s shoreline The House and Senate are currently considering legislation that would decriminalize trespassing along the mean high tide line.

Coastal property owners have filed a federal lawsuit to overturn Rhode Island's new shoreline-access law. The suit claims that the new legislation, which allows the public to use the shoreline up ...

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced late Friday the closure of all state camp grounds for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

There's a new lawsuit against state officials to overturn the newly signed shoreline access bill.

(The Center Square) — A Rhode Island judge says a law expanding public access along the state's coastline amounts to unconstitutional taking of private property without compensation.