Capt. Chris Brown was off Block Island fishing for scup, a small fish that weighs about a pound, when something much bigger landed on his deck: a 500-pound, 16-foot-long common thresher shark. The big ...

Rhode Island diners got to feast their eyes on a massive 20-foot shark lurking dangerously close to a small boat in a pond on Block Island, according to authorities. Local Jen Seebeck recorded the ...

The sighting of a large shark in Block Island's Great Salt Pond caused a stir over Memorial Day weekend. The Atlantic Shark Institute received "a number of calls" on May 26th as they "were treated to ...

An unusually large visitor spent its Memorial Day in New England this year. Just in time for the 50th anniversary of "Jaws," a massive basking shark was spotted off the coast of Block Island in Rhode ...

PROVIDENCE – It feels like something straight out of “Jaws” – minus that terrifying music. The camera follows the protruding shark fin gliding across the water’s surface in coastal New England, as a ...

“We’ve been reviewing a lot of footage over the years and had to do a triple take on that one,” said Jon Dodd, of the Atlantic Shark Institute PROVIDENCE – For the Atlantic Shark Institute, catching a ...

As the Providence community continues to grieve the lives that were lost from the Brown University shooting, many are taking this time to come together. Brown community mourns two students killed in ...

NEW LONDON, Conn. (WFSB) - A large shark spotted near Block Island is causing a stir online. A 20 foot basking shark was spotted in the Great Salt Pond near Block Island on Memorial Day. The species ...