EastBayRI.com: The East Providence Police Department were alerted to a body found floating the upper reaches of Narragansett Bay early Sunday morning, December 8. According to a report on the Providence Journal website, EPPD Lieutenant Raymond Blinn said a...

EastBayRI: The late Luther Blount of Warren was many things: shipbuilder, captain, entrepreneur, engineer, inventor, philanthropist, father. His legacy hasn’t been forgotten. When “the father of small ship cruising” died at age 90 in 2006, three daughters kept the...

The Coast Guard is investigating a possible hoax mayday call made on VHF Channel 16 on Thursday, November 1, near Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, received the mayday...

The Captain of the Ports along New England have set and are preparing to set Port Condition ZULU to close all waterways in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, Monday. Port Condition ZULU means that gale force winds are expected to...

Coast Guard rescue crews pulled a man from the waters of the East Passage of Narragansett Bay after on Sunday, October 13. According to the Jamestown Press, Maudil Aguilar, 34, of Cranston, was fishing from the rocks at Fort...

Providence Journal: The state is buying 82 acres of the former Rocky Point Amusement Park in Warwick and converting it to open space. Voters in 2010 approved a $10 million bond to purchase the land. The...

EastBayRI reports that the Coast Guard and rescue personnel from Bristol and Portsmouth rescued a man who had fallen off his boat in Mt. Hope Bay at approximately 10:00 on Friday, September 14. According to the report, the man...

Boston.com: It had been a long day at the engineering firm where Trent Theroux is director of finance. When he finally arrived at his home on Narragansett Bay on September 23, 2002, he helped get his 2 kids in...

Save The Bay, an environmental group that works to improve and protect Narragansett Bay, is raffling off a NorseBoat 21.5 Cruiser. The Cruiser is the largest in NorseBoat’s line of high-performance sailing and rowing crafts, and comfortably accommodates 2...

An interesting article by Jim McGaw on EastBayRI.com explores the history and current status of Narragansett Bay’s smaller and lesser-known islands, including Patience, Dyer, Hope and Gould. Here’s an excerpt: We all know about Aquidneck and Prudence and we’re...