Four people were rescued Thursday after two fishing boats collided 10 miles south of Block Island, R.I., officials said. Four crew members aboard a 55-foot trawler, called Mattie and Maren II, were ...

Capt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark.

In the past couple of years, both the state of Rhode Island and the Town of New Shoreham have instituted rules for the registration of short-term rentals. On the state side, the registration is with ...