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The State Bond Commission has approved $1 million to help Real Art Ways with “planning and acquisition for a new, larger facility” in Hartford, according to minutes of the July 25 meeting posted on the website of the Office of Policy and Management. The funding request from Real Art Ways, dated...

Jah-nyah Chambers is hesitating. The 6-year-old is looking for an opening in the helix of polypropylene rope made by Rodney Hogan’s hands. It is a quarter after 6 p.m. on a Wednesday evening and Hogan, 63, is teaching Chambers to double dutch, a game that features two swirling jump ropes moving...

The first public poll of the gubernatorial general election season gives Democrat Ned Lamont a slight lead over Republican Bob Stefanowski, as the two primary winners begin their head-to-head fight for the win in November. A Sacred Heart University/Hearst Connecticut Poll found that 40.8 percent...

The state Board of Examiners for Nursing disciplined three nurses on Wednesday, including suspending the license of an East Hartford nurse who tested positive for alcohol just two months after being placed on probation for alcohol abuse. The board suspended the license of the licensed practical...

What else is there to say about a theater season that began and ended with puppets having sex? The copulation of puppets in “Avenue Q” (the first show of Playhouse on Park’s 2017-18 season, back in October) and “Hand to God” (at TheaterWorks through Aug. 26) were just two particularly strong bursts...

Hundreds of officers from across the country this week tested their emergency response and tactical training at the 14th annual Connecticut SWAT Challenge in Simsbury. Teams of officers and first responders worked through a series of challenges — slinging themselves over high walls, crawling on...

Four Hartford area men have been convicted in the January 2009 killing of Charles Teasley, 35, of West Hartford. A fifth man implicated in Teasley’s murder faces trial this fall. A jury in federal court in Bridgeport on Tuesday convicted Harold "Oink" Cook, 41, of Bloomfield, Gerund "Breeze" Mickens,...

Millions of aging trees across Connecticut are dead or dying as a result of years of drought, invasive insects and major storms, experts warn, creating an increased public risk from trees falling on roads, homes, sidewalks, parks and forest trails. State and local officials and private tree-care...

Calling it a “prudent” decision, Mayor Erin Stewart on Wednesday abruptly scuttled the proposal for Tilcon Connecticut to turn city-owned watershed into a gravel quarry. Stewart cited unanswered environmental questions and public opposition as her reasons. Her decision came just two days before...

The state is paying $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by an inmate whose subcutaneous lymphoma was treated as psoriasis for the better part of three years — a publicly funded payout that hints at the liability created by what legislators have called a pattern of deficient medical care behind...