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 ...

The CERI maps provide essential information as Rhode Island’s coastal cities and towns plan for a changing climate, Fugate says. “It allows the community to see what the future is,” he says.

In our hyper-partisan world, bipartisanship is often a stretch; unanimity seems impossible. Yet just this week, Rhode Island’s House of Representatives unanimously passed a shoreline access bill.

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 ...

David Breemer, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, said Rhode Island lawmakers brushed aside a "cornerstone" of constitutional protections for private landowners and "illegally grabbed ...

Rhode Island beaches offer a variety of finds for beachcombers, including sea glass, shells, rocks, and even fossils. ... the shoreline in front of the lot and to the south is very rocky.

(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.