A 462-acre shellfishing area along the Portsmouth shoreline just south of the Mount Hope Bridge will reopen for the first time since 1975, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management ...

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (WPRI) — Around 700 acres of shellfishing grounds off Prudence Island will be closed from July 26 until sunrise on Aug. 2. A map of the shellfishing grounds that will temporarily be ...

In poetic punctuation to end Rhode Island’s 10th annual Quahog Week, the state is reopening a section of Narragansett Bay ...

Wastewater management improvements due to infrastructure investments have resulted in lower bacteria levels in the area.

(WJAR) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is closing a portion of the Lower Providence River to shellfish harvesting because of environmental concerns. RIDEM says this is ...

EAST GREENWICH, R.I. (WPRI) — Dozens of quahoggers took to Greenwich Bay Thursday to assist the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) with transplanting more than 60,000 pounds of ...