Christine Chitnis for The New York Times This rural town, with no franchises or traffic lights, is Little Compton, one of several coastal enclaves in the East Bay region of Rhode Island.

Save The Bay volunteers counted 755 seals in ... Dodd studies sharks in Rhode Island waters and along the East Coast. He's also working with several other agencies to determine the seal ...

A DJ in Rhode Island is spinning tunes in a café and her coworkers say she always knows the right music to play. Shayna Olerio gets up very early in the morning, sometimes as early as 5 a.m. to ...