It didn’t take long for the first face-to-face of Rhode Island’s Republican gubernatorial candidates to turn combative. Elaine Pelino didn’t finish her first sentence of the Wednesday debate, hosted by NBC 10 and Coastal ABC, before turning to fellow GOP candidate Aaron Guckian to ask for an in-person apology. Pelino’s request was cut off by […]

After years of sparring over press releases, media interviews and TV commercials, Gov. Dan McKee and Helena Buonanno Foulkes finally confronted each other face-to-face in the first gubernatorial debate of the 2026 election cycle. The 60-minute pre-taped segment, which aired at noon on WPRO 630 AM and on host Bill Bartholomew’s news podcast, is also […]