Earlier this year, as part of his department’s “Freedom to Drive” initiative, which aims to lessen the time Americans spend “staring at a car bumper,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy asked states to single out their most congested roadways. An unfinished plan to directly connect Route 4 and Interstate 95 in all directions was at […]
Interruptions and insults flew across the stage of Rhode Island College’s Sapinsley Hall auditorium Tuesday night as two Democratic gubernatorial candidates attempted to school the other in the third and final debate before the primary, hosted by WPRI-TV 12. Fresh off another round of public polling that shows him 20 points behind challenger Helena Buonanno […]
Three weeks and a day out from the primary, Gov. Dan McKee has failed to narrow a 20-point gap with his Democratic gubernatorial challenger, Helena Buonanno Foulkes, a survey published Tuesday by The Pell Center at Salve Regina University finds. The poll of 857 likely primary voters echoes surveys by other organizations, which also showed […]
Familiar arguments over opioids, infrastructure and who cares more about everyday Rhode Islanders dominated the first televised Democratic gubernatorial debate of the 2026 election cycle. Yet Gov. Dan McKee and his challenger, Helena Buonanno Foulkes, still managed to infuse their usual talking points with fresh insults during the hourlong forum, organized by NBC10 and Coastal […]
Most states have district attorneys to prosecute the highest crimes that happen in their jurisdictions — but not Rhode Island. Instead, felony prosecutions are the duty of the state’s attorney general, an office not quite judge, jury and executioner but one which holds more power than in other states. And with that power, as the […]
Former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi dominated discussion of the open seat on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. But a different applicant made headline news Wednesday as Gov. Dan McKee announced Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Luis Matos as his nominee for the state’s highest court. “I know his record of his decisions has been […]
More of Rhode Island’s high-schoolers are taking Advanced Placement exams in hopes of earning college credits. Rhode Island students earned potentially college-credit-qualifying scores on 10,427 exams during the 2025-26 school year — more than double the number recorded in 2021 — according to preliminary data released by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) on […]
By Rhode Island standards, the Democratic primary for the lieutenant governor’s job is a packed one. Yet the five-candidate contest for the seat currently occupied by Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos has received somewhat scant attention, WPRI 12 politics editor Ted Nesi remarked to four of the candidates shortly before the cameras rolled on a debate […]
Two judges, a state prosecutor, an appellate litigator who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, and former House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi made the list of potential nominees to fill an open seat on the state’s high court the Judicial Nominating Commission approved Tuesday. All five applied in May to fill the vacancy left […]
A dual-language public charter school blocked from opening in Providence next fall under a moratorium passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Dan McKee filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday. De La Comunidad Bilingual Public Charter School had moved partially, but not entirely, through the necessary approval pipeline when the […]
