Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family and platoon mates of the late Staff Sgt. Christopher Potts, a Tiverton resident and Rhode Island National Guardsman killed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sakonnet River Bridge officially has a new name. On June 11, Gov. Dan McKee signed legislation to rename the span connecting ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Part of the short-lived toll collection system used on the Sakonnet River Bridge could soon become a hand-me-down. The head of the R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA) ...

TIVERTON, R.I. (WPRI) – Nearly five years after the old Sakonnet River Bridge was closed, state transportation officials say the work to finally begin tearing it down will begin this spring. In a news ...

TIVERTON — The tolls are gone on the Sakonnet River Bridge, but the fight over them continues. Toll opponents will ask the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority to dismantle the gantry and the ...

“There was no real problem, at least not for us,” he said. “We used two boats and waited for a slack tide. We brought it right up.” So now the top span of the old Sakonnet River Bridge, including ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — More than four years after the new Sakonnet River Bridge opened, preliminary demolition work has finally begun on the old rusting bridge, a span between Tiverton and Portsmouth that ...

Less well known and busy than the Newport Bridge, Jamestown Bridge, and the Mount Hope Bridge, the Sakonnet River Bridge links Tiverton with Portsmouth and greater Acquidneck Island. Although it doesn ...

TIVERTON – Sakonnet Santa is no fool. He showed discretion this week, postponing his scheduled opening day due to Monday's nasty wind and rain. Instead, the town's popular St. Nick made his 2023 debut ...

Two men became stuck in a bucket dangling off Rhode Island's Sakonnet River Bridge, after a boom truck tipped onto its side Monday afternoon. The men were doing inspections around 1:30 p.m. under the ...