The drawn-out saga of a North Kingstown country club’s quest to ease development restrictions along its shoreline ended abruptly Tuesday when Rhode Island coastal regulators denied...
In December 2023, the phone calls and emails to House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi came fast and furious, with advocates and lobbyists eager to make their...
The embattled Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council is awash in criticism again — not for a controversial decision, but for the lack of one. In...
More than a year has passed since state regulators fined a North Kingstown country club for building a seawall along its property line, without permission and...
Not even the state lawmakers who sponsored 2024 legislation limiting development along the Sakonnet River are confident that the now-law bans an oyster farm proposed for...
If it’s not in writing, you can’t enforce it. So ruled Rhode Island Associate Justice Kristen Rodgers in an Aug. 9 decision, affirming a Barrington couple’s...
It’s hard to miss the 600-foot-long seawall separating Quidnessett Country Club’s golf course from the salt marshes feeding into Narragansett Bay. Even larger than the physical...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has one less bridge problem on its hands after state coastal regulators approved a plan to reconstruct a pair of...
