TheDay.com: Environmental and historic preservation groups hoping to keep Little Gull Island from becoming private property have to put together a bid for a federal government auction. The 1-acre island, which sits between Plum and Fishers...

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...

Vineyard Gazette: On Chappaquiddick, concern is growing over what neighbors are calling a hotel-like development on Sampson’s Hill, a residential neighborhood on a high point in the center of the remote island located off the eastern end of Edgartown....

TheHour.com: Developers have pulled out of a deal with the state to swap land they own for 17 acres of state-owned property along the Connecticut River in Haddam, where they had talked about building a hotel and entertainment venue....