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Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday, one for studying the economics of climate change and the other for showing how to help foster the innovation needed to solve such a problem. William Nordhaus of Yale University and Paul Romer of New York University will share the 9 million-kronor...

Ken Kaplan took a decaying remnant of Rockville’s manufacturing past and brought it roaring back to life. In 2012, Kaplan’s real estate-holding company, Kaplan Millworks, bought the tax lien on the Hockanum Mill complex, which dates to 1814 and had been vacant since 1954. Since then, Kaplan has...

Most Connecticut hospitals will lose a portion of their Medicare reimbursement payments over the next year as penalties for having high rates of patients being readmitted, new data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show. Statewide, 27 of the 29 hospitals evaluated—or 93 percent—will...

With elections four weeks away, an understanding of where Connecticut’s three leading candidates for governor stand on key issues — taxes, tolls, unfunded pensions, the seepage of residents and corporations to other states — came into sharper focus at a forum Sunday. The forum, hosted by The Emanuel...

Connecticut’s push to create new collaborative, high-tech work and educational spaces for entrepreneurs, computer wizards, craft hobbyists and kids appears to be gaining momentum with new proposals in Glastonbury and West Hartford. In November, Glastonbury voters will decide whether to move forward...

People who don’t have to cope with disabilities should still be pressing to improve life for the disabled, according to Bill DeMaio. “For those of you who are temporarily able bodied, I say if you’re lucky to live long enough that might not always be so,” DeMaio told an audience Friday at the Back...

With blocks of their neighborhood needing work, Marie Bachand and Yvette Ghannam are hoping volunteers will turn out of the North Oak community cleanup on Saturday. The North Oak NRZ is sponsoring the effort, with help from city police, firefighters, local churches and numerous community agencies....

A Hartford man who stole a car with a sleeping 11-year-old boy inside, then faced a pummeling from that boy before abandoning the car, pleaded guilty this week to first-degree larceny and risk of injury to a minor. Edward Asberry, 43, faces eight years in prison followed by four years of special...

The state Department of Consumer Protection has unveiled a database cataloging the nearly 4,000 products offered in its medical marijuana program, complete with photographs and descriptions of each strain, edible, capsule, tincture and pre-rolled cigarette available to the state’s 28,000 patients....

Two creative Connecticut millennials will each be the winners of a $5,000 prize that will allow them to turn their ideas into reality. A contest called The Push! is looking for pitches for short-term video projects or public-gathering events that must be submitted to YUPntwk.org by Oct. 15. Six...