WATERBURY – The city’s dismal recycling rates are quickly rising under a new $4 million recycling program. In October, the city began replacing residents’ 18-gallon recycling bins with 96-gallon rolling recycling carts – 31,500 in all. Typically, recyclables have accounted…

HARTFORD – The state Supreme Court overturned a far-reaching Superior Court ruling that found how the state funds public education violated the Connecticut Constitution. Led by Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers, a four-member majority determined a coalition of municipalities, parents,…

SOUTHBURY Frances Owen feeds birds on the patio of her condo at Heritage Village in the morning, tends to her garden and stays active in the community. Though Connecticut ranks near the bottom of the best states to retire, Owen…

NAUGATUCK – The Board of Education is letting the Columbus Day holiday set sail in favor of giving students a longer Thanksgiving weekend. The board has voted 7-1 to approve a 2018-19 school calendar that gives students the day before…

KENT – Frozen in place for five days and counting, the mile-long ice jam “is now one large barge” on the Housatonic River. On Wednesday, it even drew a national weather celebrity to town. Jim Cantore, a veteran meteorologist for…

WINSTED – Local officials are seriously considering an offer from Bank of America, which is willing to donate its former local branch at the corner of Center and Elm streets to the town. Town Manager Robert Geiger on Tuesday night…

WATERBURY – Wet, heavy snow made the Wednesday morning commute slow, but the storm failed to meet expectations from a day earlier. On Tuesday, forecasters called for 5 to 7 inches in Greater Waterbury, with as much as 9 inches…

NAUGATUCK – An accident Wednesday afternoon closed Prospect Street between Union City Road and Locust Street and took out power in the area. The single-car crash into two utility poles did not result in serious injuries, police said. Eversource was…

WATERBURY – Trash collections delayed by the Martin Luther King Day holiday are being pushed back again due to today’s snow. Households that usually have Tuesday pickups will now be collected Thursday. Thursday collections will happen Friday and Friday collections will…

Despite school closures and slushy road conditions, many Connecticut drivers are braving the roads this morning. As of 10 a.m., Connecticut State Police had responded 539 calls for service, 38 accidents and four accidents with injuries. There had been no…

Wet, heavy snow is falling across the state, making the morning commute treacherous. Most schools in the region are canceled, as the snow is expected to linger into mid-afternoon. Early Wednesday, snow was falling along and north of the Interstate…

WATERBURY – Police arrested three juvenile males after a shooting at Mall View Condos on Mark Lane on Tuesday afternoon. Police responded to the 31-unit condominium complex, which faces Mark Lane but has an address of 2 Craftwood Road, at…

MERIDEN – A tractor-trailer struck a fence on Interstate 691 eastbound between Exits 4 and 5, according to the state Department of Transportation. The right lane was closed until about 9:15 a.m.. The crash was reported at at 5:29 a.m….

HARTFORD – House Republican Leader Themis Klarides recently announced state Rep. Joe Polletta, R-Watertown, will now serve on the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee for the 2018-2019 legislative session. The committee position was vacated when Rep. Laura Hoydick resigned to…

WATERBURY – Mayor Neil O’Leary’s administration is seeking a $3 million increase in the budget for a pair of city construction projects that already increased in price by $25 million just 10 months ago. The money is for an ongoing…

NAUGATUCK – One school closed and classrooms at another were left in the cold over the past few weeks due to heating issues. Hop Brook Elementary School closed Tuesday because there was no heat in the building. Superintendent of Schools…

TORRINGTON – The informational hearing scheduled for Jan. 31 on the proposed sewer line extension from Woodridge Lake Sewer District in Goshen to Torrington’s treatment plant will be open to the public. The City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted…

WATERTOWN – Firefighters extinguished an engine fire outside a landscaping building on Depot Street on Tuesday afternoon. No one was in the vehicle at the time and there were no injuries, only heavy front-end damage to the truck, fire officials…

TORRINGTON – The Board of Education is beginning to figure out what the school district will look like without East School next school year. In November 2016, the New England School Development Council predicted enrollment would continue to decrease in…

WASHINGTON – Five officers involved in two Navy ship collisions last year that killed 17 sailors, including 25-year-old Ngoc “Tan” Truong Huynh of Watertown, are being charged with negligent homicide, the Navy said Tuesday. A Navy spokesman, Capt. Greg Hicks,…