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Two high-ranking officials in Hartford’s development services office have resigned heading into the final year of Mayor Luke Bronin’s first term. Kiley Gosselin, who until recently was the department’s acting director, left for a position at the Partnership for Strong Communities, a housing nonprofit...

Medical marijuana may now be prescribed to adults with degenerative spinal disorders, the state Department of Consumer Protection said this week. The drug was approved Thursday by the General Assembly’s regulations review committee to treat the chronic pain that accompanies spinal degeneration....

Since serving in the military post 9/11, veterans Michael Thomas, Tiara Boehm and Jay Murray have endured losses they attribute to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including destroyed marriages, friendships and careers. PTSD, a debilitating mental health condition, afflicts between 5 and...

The Connecticut Forum presents its second forum of the season, “Big Tech: What is the Future We’re Building?,” on Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Ave. in Hartford. The panelists are Jaron Lanier, virtual reality pioneer; Nicholas Thompson, editor of...

The election was over. The losers had conceded, the victors were celebrating, and New Haven had still not reported its votes. Mishaps and missteps are something of an Election Day tradition in Connecticut, and this year did not disappoint. With just two employees tasked with registering swarms...

Hours after Republican Bob Stefanowski conceded the governor's’ race to Ned Lamont on Wednesday, talk at Bill and Sam’s Diner in Wolcott turned to sunny Florida. Again and again during the campaign, Stefanowski warned that without a Republican governor people would continue to flee states like...

Seated quietly in the pews of Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center Thursday night, nearly 100 commemorated the havoc wrought on homes and synagogues in Germany 80 years ago on Kristallnacht. On Nov. 9 and Nov. 10, 1938, “Nazis went on a rampage” throwing rocks through glass windows of homes belonging...

Hundreds gathered at the state capitol Thursday night to demand the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election continue. The demonstration, organized in less than 24 hours by Indivisible CT and Women’s March CT, was one of several across the nation...

Beginning Monday, the earliest Hartford Line trains to New Haven will leave from Springfield at 5:15 a.m. and Hartford at 5:48 a.m. — 15 minutes earlier than they so now, which is intended to smooth the transfer in New Haven onto New York-bound trains that will arrive in the city by 9 a.m. The...

The managers of a small, eastern Connecticut electric utility cooperative say one of their core values is to “Learn from mistakes.” There could be a lot of learning opportunity in coming months at the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Cooperative. The U.S. Attorney’s office disclosed Thursday...