WATERBURY – Several residents in the neighborhood around Proctor Street and Rawley Avenue went without water for several hours throughout the day Thursday as private contractors worked to replace a damaged pipe and water valve underground in front of the…

BRISTOL – It was almost closing time at the Fresh Factory barber shop on Farmington Avenue when barber Andy Mendoza noticed a woman sitting in the shop, and he asked her about the small mark he saw on her face….

NAUGATUCK – What most surprised Courtney McGinnis once she began to study the state of the Naugatuck River were the letters she received from people who lived near its banks. “They were stories of how the river has impacted their…

WATERBURY – A hit-and-run driver is expected to be sentenced to five years in prison for the killing of a grandmother he struck days before Christmas, according to a plea deal hashed out in Waterbury Superior Court. Eliut Canales, 29,…

HARTFORD – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Thursday continued to press the legislature to act to close an estimated $222.5 million budget deficit. This morning the House and Senate are scheduled to convene and then immediately recess a special session…

NEW MILFORD – Progress is a wonderful thing to be able to show after years of restoration and the Merwinsville Hotel board of directors has been thrilled to be able to show off the work that has been accomplished this…

KENT – A judge on Wednesday dismissed most of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s lawsuit in which it seeks $610 million for land it says the state seized from the tribe. The tribal nation alleges the state took 2,000 of the…

CORNWALL – Bridges will be a major focus of local infrastructure upgrades in 2018 and not only because of the West Cornwall Covered Bridge. Local officials are also holding discussions about the attention needed for some of the spans under…

The vast majority of tax collectors will not be accepting early payments of taxes for the 2019 fiscal year, despite a change in federal law. The new tax code signed by President Donald Trump caps the deduction for state income…

TORRINGTON – As at many other charitable organizations, Susan B. Anthony Project Executive Director Jeanne Fusco spent part of the holiday week working to understand new tax law changes that she and other nonprofit leaders fear will discourage charitable giving…

TORRINGTON – Northwest Connecticut was feeling generous this Christmas season. Robin King manages a toy drive for Friend in Service to Humanity, or FISH, which also runs a food bank and shelter in Torrington. The organization funnels donations from several…

NEW HARTFORD Some special children now have a special classroom at New Hartford Elementary School. Giggling and engaged, they work on their lessons one-on-one with school staff, learning in an environment that does not have the distractions and tensions of…

WATERBURY — Gina Calabrese, a retired city principal and former Watertown Board of Education member, died Wednesday following a short illness, shocking and saddening many. Calabrese turned 63 on Dec. 16. She was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous autoimmune…

WATERBURY – Five people were injured Wednesday night after a drunken-driver crashed head-on into another vehicle, according to state police. Shortly after 7 p.m., police say Timothy Michael Ryan, of West Haven, was driving a Ford Escape owned by King…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — An explosion apparently targeted a police station Thursday in the southern Turkish city of Adana but no one was hurt, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. The blast occurred at 7:10 p.m. on a street close to…

Municipalities across the state have opened warming shelters offering refuge from the frigid temperatures. In Waterbury, the temperature was 5 degrees at 10 a.m. with a wind chill of below zero, according to AccuWeather. The high today is expected to…

BEIJING (AP) — The United States should look within to cut down demand for opioids which are fueling its deadly drug crisis rather than stressing unsubstantiated claims that China is the major source of these chemicals, a top Chinese drug…

HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut judge this week denied a petition by an animal rights group to grant personhood to three elephants in a traveling petting zoo, calling the request “wholly frivolous.” The Nonhuman Rights Project sued in November on…

WATERBURY – Police have concluded the woman who struck former state lawmaker Selim Noujaim with her car, leading to near-fatal injuries, is not to blame for the Oct. 30 accident. There will be no traffic citation for Birgit Clemente, who…

Correction: This post, originally published Wednesday, has been changed to correctly report the name of the man police are seeking. Police said Corey Casey is the man who fled after a domestic dispute and then gave officers’ someone else’s name…