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Dispatch Energy has filed petitions with the Connecticut Siting Council seeking to build fuel cell facilities in New London, Suffield and Vernon.
Homeowners in several Connecticut communities are receiving new property assessments, and some are seeing values jump by more than 50%. West Hartford began mailing new assessment notices Wednesday. According to the town, residential property values increased an average of 58.6% since the last revaluation five years ago. Plainville homeowners have...
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - Papy Bibo, a former nursing supervisor at Bickford Health Care Center in Windsor Locks, appeared in court on Thursday. Bibo is charged in the death of Margaret “Peggy” Healey, 93, who was found in the snow outside the Windsor Locks nursing home nine months ago. Police said he did not call 911 after finding her.
Groceries and housing are the biggest strains on family budgets in Connecticut and across the country, according to an NBC Responds affordability survey completed by about 1,600 people. Among renters who responded, 82% said they were “just getting by” or in a worse financial situation. 65% said they had cut...
(WFSB) - State lawmakers are calling for changes after an elderly woman was found dead at a healthcare center earlier this year. 93-year-old Peggy Healey lived at Bickford Healthcare and was found lying in a snowbank outside the home in February. She was apparently there for hours, and staff waited hours to call 911 after they found her.
(WFSB) - People are preparing for the first snowflakes of the season in Connecticut. Jim Murphy has a 160 foot driveway and used to clear it with his snowblower before it died at the start of winter last year. “It just decided it didn’t want to work. I couldn’t get...
We've all talked about the one-word reason for the Connecticut Senate Republicans' humiliation, dwindling down to three members in the chamber of 36. Trump. It's the same story across the state and the nation, of course, with his boneheaded tariffs, inhumane immigration policy and most of all in voters' minds, a war that's driving up driving and heating costs. "Donald Trump remains the greatest organizer the Democrat party has ever seen," GOP strategist Liz Kurantowicz likes to say.
The Middletown cemetery had 322 buried-cremains spaces left and could have run out around January 2028 without the expansion.
Massachusetts and New Jersey bar winter utility shutoffs from Nov. 15 to Mar. 15, while Connecticut hardship customers are protected Nov. 1 to May 1.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WTNH) — The city of New Britain is looking to keep kids safer by slowing down traffic in the city’s parks. The first step is a $25,000 project in Willow Brook Park. On Thursday, New Britain Mayor Bobby Sanchez announced a plan to improve the city’s four major parks. The first will […]
On Monday, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont asked all his state agency commissioners and deputy commissioners to resign ahead of his third term. That doesn't mean he won't reappoint some of them, he said Tuesday. He did the same thing in his second term. “I’ve been doing this for a while....
All six New England governors asked Congress to commit an extra $3 billion to LIHEAP, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
FARMINGTON — There was an accident in front of her Plainville Avenue driveway on Saturday morning. On Monday night, she told the Town Plan and Zoning Commission about it, and about drivers in the passing lane out front "laying on the horn." Across the road, a builder wants to put 18 homes. "I don't think we need this development at this time," she said.
Like many newly appointed state senate minority leaders across the country, Republican State Sen.Rob Sampson is busying himself in the runup to the start of the legislative session. But for now, Sampson is doing some housekeeping, after his party suffered historic losses in the midterm election. “A lot of things...
Political insiders Themis Klarides and Jimmy Tickey discuss what's next for CT Republicans, and the balance of power in Congress.
When the snow piles up along the Berlin Turnpike and the mornings stay dark past 6 AM, Hartford County has a reliable plan: find a booth and order something hot. This list covers six diners that keep the coffee coming all winter, from Bristol to Windsor Locks to Manchester. Some...
Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut received 52 million pounds of donated goods in 2025, more than twice its 2023 total.
The state says safety improvements are underway at its only secure psychiatric facility for teens. Chronic understaffing and worker injuries have been the focus of previous NBC Connecticut investigations. Things at the Solnit South campus in Middletown hit a breaking point this summer when employees made a public plea for...
Hartford, New Haven and Stamford drivers should know why salted highways can still become dangerously icy.
Everyone at the Thanksgiving table arrives with an opinion. In Connecticut, you’ve probably heard the same debates every November since you were old enough to hold a fork. Pumpkin or apple? Mashed or scalloped? This year, the state’s own searches settle both questions. A new Only In Your State study of Thanksgiving pie and side […]
