(Hartford) Connecticut’s towing industry better watch out. There’s a new sheriff in town — and he’s got his sights set on scrapping storage fees, eliminating “patrol towing,” requiring companies to ...

After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to ...

(Hartford) Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and a dozen fellow rideshare drivers from across Connecticut got behind the wheel Wednesday morning — to drive up to the state Capitol and push for higher pay ...

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A Democratic mayor swore in a Republican election official with calls for bispartisan cooperation as GOP members cheered them on. Yes, that really happened. Wednesday evening. In New Haven. When Mayor ...

As the temperature outside dipped down into the 20s Thursday morning, David Cox sat inside a Dixwell church extended-hour warming center — his legs crossed, bundled up in a coat and scarf and beanie ...

The late anti-violence community leader Raymond Wallace’s legacy lives on — not just through his nonprofit Guns Down Books Up, but also in a recently renamed corner by Jocelyn Square park. That corner ...

The Board of Alders unanimously voted to uproot the parks commission — along with its lifetime appointees — and compost it into a new board with limited terms. One concern with the lifetime appointee ...

A state judge approved the no-fault eviction of an Edgewood family after cautioning both landlord and tenant about the quicksand-like perils of oral, rather than written, leases. State Superior Court ...

Sherrill Petaway has spent years looking for a new home. Since July, she’s been engaged in a boot camp of sorts. One that will bulk up her credit so that she can buy a house — sooner rather than later ...

With a new year typically comes promises to oneself to try something they haven’t done before or to do something in a different way. A beloved local singer songwriter did just that Saturday night with ...

ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO APPROPRIATING ORDINANCE # 1 RECLASSIFYING ONE DISPATCH/OPERATOR III POSITION TO COMMUNICATIONS SUPERVISOR WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS AND RECLASSIFYING ...