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Voters in Connecticut's 23rd House District elected Democrat Jane Wisialowski to represent them in Hartford over Republican Barbara Labriola. Both candidates spoke to the Harbor News about the results and what comes next. The 23rd House District includes Old Saybrook, Westbrook, Lyme, and Old Lyme. According to unofficial tallies reported...
Congress has eliminated all funding for public media. That means $2.1 million per year that Connecticut Public relied on to deliver you news, information, and entertainment programs you enjoyed is gone. The future of public media is in your hands. All donations are appreciated, but we ask in this moment...
The Middlebury Historical Society will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, November 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Shepardson Community Center Auditorium, 1172 Whittemore Road in Middlebury. Following the brief business meeting, Historical Society Vice President Michael Simms III, M.D., will present “Scurvy: Low C on the High Seas.” The...
A recount of all of Wallingford's ballots is set to take place Friday following a counting error, and the rest of state Senate District 34's ballots will also be counted with a Tuesday deadline. Nearly 39,000 people came to polls in state senate District 34, and just 25 of those...
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont and Insurance Commissioner Joshua Hershman are encouraging residents to review their health insurance options and see whether they qualify for financial assistance as the state’s annual open enrollment period begins through Access Health CT, the state’s official health insurance marketplace.
Connecticut's congressional delegation is set to take over committees overseeing the federal budget, as well as the wars in Iran and Ukraine.
The views stated here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors of this newspaper. We welcome supporting or opposing views on any published item. Received November 6, 2026. Election night, as a Republican candidate, was obviously very disappointing. Connecticut, along with the whole...
Late on Oct. 20, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s campaign manager and Connecticut’s then-candidate for the 28th State Senate District, Rob Blanchard, was pulled over by police in Newtown, according to WTNH. Blanchard received a traffic ticket after he drove through an active construction zone on South Main Street...
Nov. 21, 2013 -- Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, was granted bond today after a judge found that his defense lawyer did not adequately represent him 11 years ago when he was tried for a murder committed decades earlier. Skakel, the 53-year-old nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow,...
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Connecticut’s deputy secretary of the state said Tuesday that one person was caught by election officials attempting to vote twice during the state’s early voting period. During a news conference, Deputy Secretary of the State Jennifer Barahona said one person was caught on Monday, highlighting the severity of election fraud and […]
Connecticut bans phosphorus lawn fertilizer from Dec. 1 to March 15, and UConn says feeding should end by Oct. 15. Here is what the state law covers.
Connecticut Republicans are facing a political reckoning after Democrats won an overwhelming majority in the state legislature, leaving the GOP with as few as three seats in the state Senate and a diminished presence in the House. The results went beyond what one veteran political observer expected. “We all expected...
Advocates for people behind bars in Connecticut say they want swift changes to the state’s prison health care system. An Office of the Correction Ombuds report from earlier this year found nearly 1,600 people in prison awaiting appointments for off-site medical treatment. The latest report showed the office received around 2,000 complaints about the Department of Correction’s health services. Barbara Fair, executive director of the group Stop Solitary CT, said it has been a long-standing problem. "People have waited for years to get specialty services. People reportedly have died waiting for services and many have gone home with so many diseases and chronic illnesses as the result of medical neglect," Fair pointed out. The state has enacted a new law to improve prison healthcare. It takes a multifaceted approach, requiring the state to provide medically necessary procedures at on-site or off-site facilities and to keep electronic health records. It also creates a Correction Medical and Health Commission to draft a 10-year plan to improve medical, nutrition, behavioral health and healthcare services for incarcerated people. Fair's group said other changes are needed, including hiring more healthcare professionals to work for the Department of Corrections. She noted some people have left the
Rainfall totals could vary by several inches across Connecticut, with the heaviest amounts expected in the eastern part of the state.
Unofficial results from this year’s midterms came relatively quickly Tuesday night, with Democrats winning the gubernatorial race and other statewide seats as well as the U.S. House seat in District 1. These were expected. What was not expected in Bristol was a long-time Republican incumbent in the 77th State...
An empty building can feel unsettling even in broad daylight. Add a complicated history and years of abandonment, and suddenly every dark window seems to raise another question. Who worked there? What was daily life like?. One abandoned Connecticut sanatorium has a haunting past that continues to attract curiosity long...
Retirement is supposed to mean having a little more freedom with your time and money. But when winter heating bills start eating into a fixed income, things can get complicated pretty quickly. And moving somewhere more affordable suddenly doesn’t sound like such a strange idea. For some Connecticut retirees,...
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