Narragansett Bay

A woman’s body was found near a restaurant in the waters of Narragansett Bay near Bristol, Rhode Island, Thursday, police said. Police in Portsmouth said Friday that the body is that of a woman who fell from a ferry in the bay this week, She was 39-year-old Laura Ward from Prudence Island. The body was found in the water...

First responders searched overnight for a person in the water in or around Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Monday night, officials said. A woman fell off the Prudence Island ferry about 6:30 p.m., Bristol’s fire chief told NBC affiliate WJAR. But the search was suspended Tuesday, after Coast Guard crews spent 10 hours scanning 39 square nautical miles without finding her,…

Rescue crews were able to recover the body of a 30-year-old man who tried to save the girl, but the 11-year-old remained missing Sunday night.

A cottontail rabbit trapped by authorities tested positive for a contagious bacterial infection that can sicken humans and other animals. The rabbit with Tularemia, or rabbit fever, was trapped on Patience Island in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay, the state Department of Environmental Management said on Monday. Authorities learned of the diagnosis March 3 and urged visitors to Patience Island to avoid...

Authorities on Monday identified the woman killed over the weekend in a boating collision off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island. Rhode Island officials said Sandra G. Tartaglino, 60, of Tiverton was killed Sunday afternoon when her two-person catamaran sailboat was struck by a powerboat while she was competing in a regatta.

One person has died after a boating crash Sunday off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, officials say. A 60-year-old woman was killed when the two-person catamaran sailboat she was on collided with a powerboat in Narragansett Bay near the Newport Bridge, according to the United States Coast Guard. The victim was racing in the New England 100 Regatta at...

A man who was swept from a sand bar in Rhode Island on Saturday has died, according to Warwick fire officials.

A Rhode Island woman has been rescued after apparently falling off a sailboat and being stranded for hours on an island in Narragansett Bay.

High pressure in the Gulf of Maine gives us a nice Friday, although there is a bit of a breeze off of the ocean.

Rhode Islanders feel slighted that Bostonians get all the glory for helping spark the American Revolution with the Boston Tea Party. After all, more than a year before any tea was tossed, Rhode Island colonists burned a British ship.

The New York state Senate unanimously passed a bill that would correct the spelling of a bridge that has been wrong for over 50 years.

After a very cold Monday with some spotty snow, temperatures moderate a bit today with a more widespread snow moving in later today and tomorrow.

The Environmental Protection Agency says its scientists are not discussing a report that deals in part with climate change because the Rhode Island event is not an EPA conference.