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Connecticut is launching a pilot program of its first health information exchange using a $12.2 million grant from the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The state will use the funds to further develop its planned information technology exchange, which will share patient records...

Having won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking public sector unions from requiring fees of nonunion workers, a conservative group is now in federal court in Hartford to force a Connecticut union to reimburse three years’ worth of payments to employees. The National Right to Work Legal...

More than 400 teddy bears boarded a Hartford Line train at Union Station Thursday morning headed to New Haven, where they were donated to children at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. The bears, from a nonprofit called Sandra’s Smiles Project, are specially made for children to hold as they undergo...

The state’s two U.S. Senators said Thursday they are scrapping a secret judicial selection process that prohibited candidates for federal judgeships in Connecticut from revealing anything about the application and selection process. “As far as I’m concerned, we are going to eliminate it,” Senator...

Sometime around 7 a.m. on Thursday, a customer in a generous mood paid for the coffee of the person behind them ithe drive-thru line at a Southingon Dunkin’ Donuts. That small random act of kindness triggered a “pay-it-forward” streak that ran unbroken for three and a half hours at the franchise’s...

Hartford Line trains between Hartford and Springfield will be replaced by buses this weekend as the Department of Transportation finishes laying double-track between Hartford and Windsor. Bus service will last from 10:30 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday. Amtrak’s regional through service will be...

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday afternoon to confirm President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kari A. Dooley as a judge of the federal district court in Connecticut. Dooley, a 55-year old Newtown Republican, is a former state Superior Court judge and former assistant U.S. Attorney. She was nominated...

An internal investigation found that Stephen Barone, the Hartford policeman filmed last month warning a group of young people he felt “trigger happy,” violated the department’s code of conduct, intentionally used profane language, and “in his own admission, agreed that his conduct discredited the...

No matter where you are at The Big E, everywhere you turn, there’s something fun to see, something new to do and something tasty (and bizarre) to eat, from the traditional cream puff and Maine baked potato to this year’s deep-fried Pop Tarts. There are concerts every day, but a myriad of nonmusical...

Infosys is holding a speed hiring event this weekend seeking technology workers and health care and insurance consultants for the India-based software corporation’s regional headquarters in Hartford. The hiring event is scheduled for Saturday at Infosys’ administrative location in Glastonbury, ...