By Rob Smith — With summer approaching, the state’s activists are gearing up for battle over that most Rhode Island of issues: beach parking.

By Antonia Noori Farzan — …Several decades ago, the state came up with a solution: Towns could get grants to improve rights of way by clearing away brush, laying down walkways, and putting in amenities like picnic tables and bike racks. In exchange, they had to take steps to ensure that those sites would be accessible to the public — including providing parking whenever possible.

By Rob Smith — Rhode Islanders got their first crack at public comment at a recent meeting of the House commission to study shoreline access…

By Brian Amaral — The quiet, wealthy community has several public points of access to the shore -- and prominent “no parking” signs near many of them, limiting who gets to go to the beach

By Antonia Noori Farzan — When Ken Block got a dog two years ago, his perspective on Barrington started to change. Tilly, a Goldendoodle, loves to swim. So Block, best known locally for his runs for governor in 2010 and 2014, began looking for spots to take her. And he quickly discovered that getting to the water was much harder than it seemed.