By Savana Dunning — With little warning, Clean Ocean Access, the nonprofit agency that has cleaned up Aquidneck Island beaches for nearly a decade, announced that it will dissolve.

By Savan Dunning — Conrad Ferla’s love of surfing led him down the path to becoming a shoreline-access advocate.

By Savana Dunning — A viral video confrontation between a Middletown property owner and a Newport resident trying to access a public right of way has generated over 6 million views on TikTok, sparking social media interest and conversation about public access to the shoreline.

Newport’s Friends of the Waterfront are calling on the city to investigate whether The Mooring restaurant’s recently approved plans for its parking lot encroach on public access to Newport Harbor.