- CT Mayor Neil O'Leary says he will not seek re-election
![Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary speaks during a news conference at the Bridgeport Transportation Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. July 11, 2022. O’Leary joined Gov. Ned Lamont and others to announce new express trains and expanded rail services on Metro-North’s New Haven Line and Waterbury Branch.]()
- Lamont facing headwinds in push for new climate billls
![Gov. Ned Lamont visited an air quality monitoring station Wednesday in East Hartford as part of his push for new legislation to help the state meet its established emissions-reduction goals.]()
- CT's senators pushing for federal gun violence prevention office
![WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 26: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) embraces Erica Leslie Lafferty, whose mother was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) looks on during a rally with gun control advocacy groups outside the U.S. Capitol on May 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. Organized by Moms Demand Action, Everytown for Gun Safety and Students Demand Action, the rally brought together members of Congress and gun violence survivors to demand gun safety legislation following mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)]()
- CT troopers ‘excessive’ hours raise concerns about safety, cost
![A file photo of a state police stetson hat, front, worn by all sworn troopers in Connecticut.]()
- Advocates push for more protections for domestic violence victims
![The Connecticut State Capitol, in Hartford, Conn. Jan 24, 2023.]()
- CT-led bill aims to protect kids online. Will it clear Congress?
![Some lawmakers and officials have said TikTok is a national security concern. (Dreamstime/TNS)]()
National Politics
- Pro-labor? Biden aims to prove it with unionized 2024 staffJoe Biden likes to say he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When Biden announces his expected Democratic reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he’ll get the chance to prove it to...By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER
- By MICHELLE L. PRICE, JILL COLVIN and ERIC TUCKER
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![New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart vowed in her state of the city address to keep the pedal down on city improvements.]()
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![Stamford's Marcia Lewison uses an umbrella to take cover from the light freezing rain falling outside Ferguson Library in Stamford, Conn. Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The area was hit with a minor storm Tuesday that produced minimal accumulations of rain and snow.]()
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![A Stamford resident votes at the District 18 polling place at Turn of River Middle School in Stamford, Conn., on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, when a special state House election was held. Because of redistricting, some voters participating in the Aug. 9, 2022 primaries will head to a polling place that is different from where they have voted previously.]()
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![FILE - This June 25, 2019, file photo shows a sign outside a Walgreens Pharmacy in Pittsburgh. Two of the largest U.S pharmacy chains have agreed in principle to pay about $10 billion combined to settle lawsuits over the toll of powerful prescription opioids, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. In addition to the deals with CVS Health and Walgreens, a lawyer for local governments says settlement conversations are continuing with Walmart. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)]()
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![The Connecticut State Capitol, in Hartford, Conn. Jan 24, 2023.]()
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![Connecticut lawmakers have filed nearly a dozen bills this legislative session addressing Native American issues. "We’re not at the point where we have to fight so hard to be heard," said Rodney Butler, the chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council.]()
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![New house • Built in 2019 • Modern style • 3,200 square feet • 4 full bedrooms, 3 full baths • Sunroom • Solar and geothermal energy, and energy-efficient Warmboard radiant heat • Energy-recovery system: Heating and cooling energy from the home’s exhaust air is recycled, providing savings in summer cooling and winter heating. • Energy-efficient, on-demand water heater • Non-combustible, sustainably sourced exterior siding: Boral TruExterior siding in a nickel gap profile • Composite sustainably sourced slate-style roof: Boral Inspire classic slate • LED lighting throughout the house with smart house-lighting controls • Runoff water storage for garden irrigation]()
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![The entrance to the New Haven Community Correctional Center.]()
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![The waste-processing side of the MIRA trash-to-energy plant in Hartford’s South Meadows. In recent years, an average of 2,500 tons of garbage were dumped and processed daily at MIRA. But when the plant shuts down in the next year or so, all that tonnage will need to go somewhere else.]()
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![Connecticut state Rep. Robin Comey, D-Branford, is handcuffed by police following a rollover crash on Capitol Avenue in Hartford Thursday night. Comey was charged with DUI, House Democrats said.]()
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![Dina Scalo, an attorney for the City of Bridgeport, appears before the Connecticut Freedom of Information Council on Feb. 22, 2023.]()
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![After her son Christian was restrained or secluded nearly 50 times in a two-year period, Latisha Johnson devoted herself to ending the practices in Connecticut. She was one of several dozen people to submit testimony on the subject ahead of a public hearing Wednesday.]()
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![Connecticut state Rep. Robin Comey, D-Branford, is handcuffed by police following a rollover crash on Capitol Avenue in Hartford Thursday night. Comey was charged with DUI, House Democrats said.]()
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![State Sen. Jan Hochadel]()
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![Charlene Russell-Tucker, Commissioner for the Connecticut State Department of Education, speaks during a public hearing in front of the State legislature's Education Committee, in Hartford, Conn. March 15, 2023.]()
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![Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz speaks during a news conference in front of the Norwalk Public Library, in Norwalk, Conn. March 16, 2023.]()
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![Hot pizza getting cut and boxed at Frank Pepe's in New Haven on April 23, 2021.]()
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![The Connecticut State Capitol, in Hartford, Conn. Jan 24, 2023.]()
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![Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has accepted Purdue Pharma paying its CEO and president, Craig Landau, a 2022 bonus of up to about $2.5 million, but he still asserts that Landau should step down as CEO.]()
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![From left, Isaias Wooden, son of former state treasurer Shawn Wooden; Alan Lazowski of West Hartford, founder of LAZ Parking; and Blooomfield Mayor Danielle Wong at a gala in Wooden's honor Friday, Feb. 3, 2023 at Dunkin' Donuts Park Hartford. Wong and Lazowski were co-chairs of the event.]()
