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Mayor Luke Bronin has tapped Walter Veselka, the longtime public works director in Bristol, to fill Hartford’s top public works post. Fire Chief Reginald Freeman has been the city’s interim DPW director since Marilynn Cruz-Aponte stepped down in March 2017. Freeman ran both departments for more...

The first snowstorm of the season dropped more than a half-foot of snow in parts of Connecticut Thursday evening, crippling roads and prompting hundreds of school delays and closures. First snowstorm dropped more than a half-foot, more snow fell in spots Friday » Here’s a look at how much snow...

Tickets go on sale Nov. 19 for Camp John Waters, the third annual weekend at the 320-acre Club Getaway in northwestern Connecticut with the cult-film director. The event at the adult camp in Kent is billed as being “dirtier, filthier, raunchier and longer than ever before.” Waters will preside...

State police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of well-known heavy metal guitarist Oliver Herbert of the band All That Remains, who drowned in a pond behind his Stafford Springs home last month. While the state medical examiner’s office ruled this week that Herbert, 44,...

State transportation officials estimate tolling Connecticut’s highways could raise $1 billion each year, with in-state traffic accounting for 44 percent of revenue, according to a study released Thursday. Electronic gantries would be installed at average intervals of 6.6 miles across 539 miles...

Bristol Hospital physicians donated money this fall and staff volunteered time Thursday so about 180 needy families in Greater Bristol can prepare full Thanksgiving meals. For the 26th year in a row, the hospital’s medical staff organized the fundraiser to ensure families can have turkey with vegetables,...

The state ethics commission decided Thursday to appeal a superior court judge’s ruling that UConn did not violate state ethics codes when it hired Corey Edsall to be the tight ends coach on his father’s football staff. In a 41-page ruling last month, Judge Joseph Shortall said the Citizen's Ethics...

Jess Nelson didn’t used to be into art. “I never got past stick figures,” says the 35-year-old Burlington native, who has cerebral palsy. Then she tried art therapy at New Horizons Village, the Farmington apartment complex where she lives. “I never knew I could create such cool stuff.” Nelson is...

Hallelujah! A new ballet company is bringing a new Christmas dance tradition to town — Handel’s “Messiah.” Vivid Ballet, founded in 2016, changed its name recently to Ballet Hartford. The company took part in the 5x5 Dance Festival Nov. 3 at the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford, where...

Robert Carmon had a rough start to life. Shortly after birth he developed asthma, a chronic disease that causes inflammation in the lungs and difficulty breathing. His attacks were so severe as an infant that his parents rushed him to the emergency room practically every week. They were terrified...