By Janine L. Weisman | Editor-in-Chief
Good Wednesday morning!
A partly sunny day with a high near 76 is in the Providence forecast today.
Happy birthday to Rep. David Morales, the Democratic nominee for mayor of Providence, who turns 28 today.
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High tide on Block Island is at 11:48 a.m. Low tide is at 5:45 p.m. Sunrise is at 6:28 a.m. Sunset is at 6:54 p.m.
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The Rhode Island Hospitality Association has its annual Economic Outlook Breakfast from 8-11 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick.
A groundbreaking ceremony for a new building expansion at Davies Career & Technical High School in Lincoln is at 10 a.m.
The House commission studying services and programs for older Rhode Islanders meets at 2 p.m. The meeting will focus on ways to strengthen and develop the state’s Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) workforce.
The Rhode Island Board of Elections met Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, to certify results from the state’s Sept. 9 primary. (Screenshot)
By Nancy Lavin
Reviews of three close primary races, including the Republican gubernatorial race featuring Aaron Guckian and Elaine Pelino, did not change the winners, the Rhode Island Board of Elections confirmed Tuesday. The 20% turnout also marked the highest participation rate in a state primary in the last decade.
Alan Gordon, the Republican nominee running for Rhode Island attorney general, stands next to a statue of 19th century antislavery activist and women’s suffragist Elizabeth Buffum Chace on the second floor of the State House on Sept. 15, 2026. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
Republican attorney general nominee Alan Gordon said he’s confident in his legal analysis of the 19-page plan he unveiled Tuesday in his campaign’s first press conference at the Rhode Island State House. “I ran it through three AIs,” he told the only reporter who showed up. His idea: to criminally charge men whose consensual sex results in an unwanted pregnancy.
A backyard camera captures several deer deer at 12:51 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2025, in Beechwood Estates in the Yawgoo area of Exeter. The town is located in Zone 2 where archery season started two weeks earlier. (Photo by Laura Paton/Rhode Island Current)
By Alexander Castro
Rhode Island archery deer hunters started the season two weeks earlier in a larger portion of the state on Tuesday, a change supported by new data on the size and distribution of the state’s deer population. Archery season in Zone 2, which covers much of western and southern Rhode Island, as well as Tiverton and Little Compton, previously began on Oct. 1.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 21, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)
By Jennifer Shutt | D.C. Bureau
The cost of U.S. military operations in Iran has exceeded $40 billion and the war will continue to cost taxpayers between $2 billion and $3 billion per month, according to an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The bombing campaign President Donald Trump launched alongside the Israeli government in February has significantly reduced American military weapons stockpiles, according to the analysis.
ICYMI
Cybertruck owners take a heavy toll on the Pell Bridge. And pay one too. | Christopher Shea
US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule limiting mail voting, sides with Dem states | Jacob Fischler, D.C. Bureau
Doctors say children of immigrants are missing healthcare | Nada Hassanein, Stateline
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