WARWICK – David Ghigliotty looks every part the bullraker, with a weatherbeaten face, thick shoulders and calloused hands as hard as a clam shell. He started raking for quahogs as a teenager during ...

When it's just after lunch on a Sunday afternoon in Providence, Julie Voigt knows it's not too late for one of her favorite summertime options on the coast. She and her boyfriend can rack her kayak ...

Our special program "Narragansett Bay: A Friend's Perspective" was produced in 1987, when it still wasn't unusual for sewage treatment plants to dump polluted water into the upper bay, periodically ...

JAMESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) — On an unseasonably warm October day, the John H. Chafee pulled away from the docks of Fort Wetherill to conduct a survey of the marine life that call Narragansett Bay home.

(WJAR) — A major undertaking to tackle part of state's sewer drainage system has now reached a decades long milestone. Crews with the Narragansett Bay Commission have just completed excavation of an ...

WARWICK, R.I. (WPRI) — An area of Upper Narragansett Bay that had been closed to shellfish harvesting for more than two weeks has reopened. The closure initially began on Sept. 6 after the bay was ...

URI researchers say that in the last 50 years, levels of phytoplankton – tiny plants that are the foundation of the marine food chain – are down by 50% in Narragansett Bay. Through photosynthesis, ...

Autumn Oczkowski, Scott Nixon, Kelly Henry, Peter DiMilla, Michael Pilson, Stephen Granger, Betty Buckley, Carol Thornber, Richard McKinney, Joaquin Chaves Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 31, No. 1 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min After six years of talks about ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (CBS) -- It doesn't get much more private than this. A home in Narragansett Bay is up for sale and it's the only one on the entire island. "Want to have an island to yourself?" the ...

PROVIDENCE — Ever since the first Europeans arrived in what would become Rhode Island, its lands and waters have been primed for change. The early settlers razed forests to make way for farms. Their ...

Narragansett Bay Insurance Company (NBIC) celebrated another milestone on May 14th, when Chief Executive Officer Nick Steffey congratulated Rogers & Gray Insurance for writing NBIC’s 100,000th ...