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There are some new gifts, as well as a sleigh-full of familiar Christmas comforts, in the Christmas shows returning to Connecticut theaters this holiday season. TheaterWorks' 'Christmas on the Rocks' TheaterWorks was all set to announce that Matt Wilkas and Jenn Harris would return as the stars...

Winterfest, Hartford’s annual celebration of the season, returns the day after Thanksgiving and runs through Three Kings Day, with ice skating, game rooms, paint nights, improv comedy, carousel rides, storytelling, a carol sing and some remnants of the glory days of G. Fox’s Christmas displays....

Sometime’s it’s hard to remember amid all the hustle and bustle, but the holidays are supposed to be fun. So whether it’s your favorite “Christmas Carol” or “Nutcracker,” a gingerbread-house or train-show exhibit, or just a free spin around the ice rink during Winterfest in Bushnell Park, try to...

Avon’s Nod Road winds through the scenic flat lands between the Farmington River and the steep ridgeline of Talcott Mountain. This place of quiet beauty has become a real estate battleground where area residents are digging in to repel plans for a big housing development. Similar conflicts have...

The former human resources manager at WTNH-TV Channel 8 in New Haven has sued the station and its parent company, Nexstar Media Group, claiming gender and age discrimination and alleging the station’s general manager made “sexist comments regarding young females.” In her federal lawsuit filed Monday,...

Backed by police officers and paramedics, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday warned of “a new menace” in the nationwide drug abuse epidemic — a super-potent painkiller that critics say is bound to hit illegal markets. Dsuvia, a tablet form of a synthetic opioid, was the focus of a press conference...

Hartford residents and businesses came together to collect food items for families in need early Tuesday, despite the heavy rain. Foodshare's "Turkey Tuesday" Food Drive kicked off at CityPlace on Asylum Street with the help of Bank of America and UnitedHealthcare volunteers. More than 400 turkeys...

The Metropolitan District’s proposed $189.1 million budget, a $22.1 million or 13.2 percent increase over current spending, would increase most residential customers’ bills by $6.73 a month, according to a MDC spokesperson. The monthly bill increase is not the only MDC bill residential customers...

Hartford police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old Trinity College student who died over the long weekend after he was rushed to the hospital from a student townhouse. The state medical examiner’s office said Tuesday that the death of the student is still under investigation and could...

State Attorney General George Jepsen’s quest to reduce or revoke former Mayor Eddie A. Perez’s pension will go to court Wednesday, as testimony begins in the case. The trial is expected to take only a day. Evidence will be heard over three or four hours at Superior Court in Hartford. Perez resigned...