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EIGHTEEN RHODE Island restaurants have been honored with Wine Spectator’s 2026 Restaurant Awards. Launched in 1981, the awards recognize the highest standards in restaurant wine service across three levels: the Award of Excellence, the Best of Award of Excellence, and the Grand Award, bestowed upon 2,083, 1,830, and 99 winners respectively this year. 

18 R.I. restaurants earn 2026 Wine Spectator awards

PROVIDENCE – Eighteen Rhode Island restaurants have been honored with Wine Spectator’s 2026 Restaurant Awards.  The Atlantic on Block Island, Aurelia at Castle Hill in Newport, Cara...
THE HISTORY of chicken salad apparently can be traced back to a meat market in South Kingstown in 1863. / COURTESY STOP & SHOP SUPERMARKET CO.

Rhode Island credited with giving the world chicken salad

PROVIDENCE – Move over clam cakes and coffee milk, Rhode Island is apparently the "birthplace" of another beloved consumable: chicken salad. In marking National Chicken...

America250-Enduring Success: Salk’s Ace Hardware & Marine Inc.

(Editor’s note: This is the eighth installment in a weekly series featuring Rhode Island’s oldest companies as the nation approaches the 250th anniversary of...

U.S. News ranks 6 R.I. home health agencies as high performing

PROVIDENCE – Six R.I. home health agencies are among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report.  In its inaugural ranking,...
A 2,576-SQUARE-FOOT condominium overlooking Silver Lake in the Wakefield section of South Kingstown sold for $1.9 million. / COURTESY MOTT & CHACE SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

Condo overlooking Silver Lake sells for South Kingstown-record $1.9M

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A 2,576-square-foot condominium overlooking Silver Lake in the Wakefield section of town sold for $1.9 million, making it the highest-ever condo...

Mass. lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales...

BOSTON (AP) – A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state the first...

CVS workers strike at 7 Southern California stores for better pay...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Workers at seven CVS Health Corp. pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and...

Report: Pharmacy staff at 2 R.I. CVS locations vote to unionize

WOONSOCKET – Pharmacy staff at two CVS Health Corp. locations in the southern part of the state voted to unionize with The Pharmacy Guild,...

CVS pharmacists at 2 R.I. locations seek to unionize

WOONSOCKET – Pharmacists at two CVS locations in the southern part of the state announced Tuesday that they have filed to unionize with The...

Tempur Sealy to buy Mattress Firm in $4B deal 

WASHINGTON (AP) – Bedding provider Tempur Sealy has agreed to acquire Mattress Firm in a cash-and stock-transaction valued at about $4 billion, the companies...
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