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A legislative committee on Friday endorsed a proposal to enshrine the right to abortion in the Connecticut Constitution. → Read More
A legislative task force examining the impact of a looming wave of state employee retirements issued its final recommendations Tuesday. → Read More
Meet four barrier-breaking municipal leaders who made history when they won on Election Day in Connecticut. → Read More
About 40 people gathered outside Cigna CEO David Cordani's Simsbury home to protest his opposition to a legislative proposal to create a new government-run insurance initiative. → Read More
Vice President Kamala Harris will appear in New Haven on Friday with Reps. Jahana Hayes and Rosa DeLauro. The trip is part of her “Help is Here” tour, which highlights how the stimulus plan benefits families. The tour has taken her to Denver, Las Vegas and Jacksonville, Fla. so far. → Read More
J.R. Romano, a hard-charging former political consultant who has led the Connecticut Republican Party since 2015, announced Tuesday he is resigning as party chairman. → Read More
Stratford woman uses social media to chronicle her harrowing final days. → Read More
Thomas Gilmer, a Republican running for Congress in Connecticut's 2nd District, abruptly dropped his bid Tuesday morning, following his arrest on Monday. → Read More
Nursing home patients with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia are among the most vulnernable to dying of COVID-19 complications. "Patients with dementia are often confused and scared,'' said Dr. Richard Feifer, medical director for Genesis Healthcare, which owns several Connecticut nursing homes, "so the risks of [the virus] spreading in a nursing home much higher, because of the… → Read More
Chanting Black Lives Matter and no justice no peace, more than 2,000 people took to the streets of Hartford Saturday afternoon in a near-spontaneous expression of rage and grief over the spate of police killings across the U.S. → Read More
Two sisters at a nursing home in Bristol, Connecticut, died three days apart from the coronavirus. → Read More
Patricia and Kenneth Olshan met at Indiana University in 1951. After 65 years of marriage, the couple from Redding, Connecticut died earlier this month, three days apart, from the coronavirus. → Read More
House Republican Leader Themis Klarides will not seek another term in the legislature after serving for 22 years. → Read More
The global pandemic has brought waves of heartache to St. Paul’s, a diverse congregation of about 500 worshippers in Norwalk. The church has lost three parishioners to the new coronavirus. → Read More
After returning from a DJ gig on March 10 in Westchester County, an early hot zone in the U.S. coronavirus pandemic, Mike O’Brien developed a cough. The 35-year-old from Wolcott shook it off as a cold, or perhaps a symptom of his seasonal allergies. Sixteen days later, O’Brien was dead, likely the youngest person in Connecticut to die of complications related to COVID-19 so far. → Read More
Biden victories unite moderate Democrats as Sanders supporters brace for a Bernie backlash. → Read More
The proposals are all supported by the Governor’s Council on Women and Girls, which was created last year to women’s education and economic opportunity, health and workplace equity. → Read More
President Donald Trump faces a Republican primary in Connecticut this year. → Read More
Amid the heightened tensions of the impeachment trial, at least 10 House Democrats boycotted President Trump's State of the Union speech and at least two others -- Tim Ryan of Ohio and Bill Pascarelli of New Jersey -- walked out of the chamber before Trump had finished speaking Wednesday night. After the speech, Sen. Chris Murphy said he wished he had been one of them. → Read More
After coming close in 2019, Connecticut lawmakers will make another push in 2020 to regulate and tax marijuana for recreational use. → Read More