An idea that would have once been unthinkable in the Rhode Island General Assembly found broad support in the final week of the legislative session: giving users a safe, supervised place to take their drugs.

Haitians in the Boston area are stunned after the assassination of the country's president, Jovenel Moise and the shooting of his wife in their residence overnight.

When the pandemic started, there were worries that colleges and universities would be hotbeds of COVID-19, but experts say this didn't pan out.

Mark Pitcavage is a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism. He says the Moors consider themselves sovereign citizens -- who believe they are not U.S. citizens, and not beholden to laws.

WBUR's Steve Brown joined Morning Edition for a look at this potential match-up.

Former state representative Diehl is eyeing Gov. Charlie Baker's seat in 2022.

If you picture a solar field, what do you see? Probably a large open space, flat and dry with lots of sunlight. Now think about a cemetery. Swap out those solar panels for gravestones and the locations suddenly have a lot in common. So why not combine the two?

At a community vigil in Brighton Friday morning, Rollins said anyone responsible for hate-based crime must be held responsible.

The Department of Correction says it will end prisoner isolation in all of its prisons over the next three years.

Hundreds of people filled the town green in Winthrop to remember two of their own who died in what authorities describe as "an execution" -- and may have been targeted because they were Black. Their friends and family members remembered them as good people who spent much of their lives committed to serving and protecting their communities.