(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 ...

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(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 ...

But as she skipped around the room with her younger nieces and told the story of the milk she left under her bed for the Three Kings to drink, she gave a different kind of gift to the adults in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And public space — well, “public space is not always fun.” That’s kind of the point. So argues Elihu Rubin, a Yale architecture professor and documentarian of the Green, as he cautioned against too ...

As snow fell and the temperature plummeted, a third city warming center opened Monday night for homeless young adults looking for a place to sleep and stay warm during winter nights. Meanwhile, two ...

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 ...

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 ...