Get Rhode Map A weekday briefing from veteran Rhode Island reporters, focused on the things that matter most in the Ocean State. There are a handful of competitive legislative races today, including a ...

Early voting in Ocean County has drawn over 107,000 residents to the polls, with Republicans leading both in-person early voting and ...

which forcibly transported more than three million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean for over 300 years, abolished slavery in 1833. The United States, where around 388,000 of them landed, ...

Extreme Weather Maps: Track the possibility of extreme weather in the places that are important to you. Heat Safety: Extreme ...

Warren G. Harding won 404 electoral votes. His victory was seen as a reaction against the policies of his predecessor, ...

Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...

America is a patchwork of regions, many called "belts" to describe wide swaths with something in common. Here's an election night guide to the names and places.

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing ...

A tropical storm forming in the Southern Gulf is predicted to turn into a hurricane. What Mississippi can expect from potential Hurricane Rafael ...

Tropical Storm Rafael expected to form Monday and possibly enter the Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane. What happens next?

An international team of scientists is reconstructing the impact of the 2008 Chaitén volcanic eruption on the marine ...

US auction of first Atlantic Ocean floating wind project sites gains buyers, but market players show caution in facing impact ...