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Connecticut’s wealthy major-party candidates for governor poured more of their own money into campaign war chests last month, as each continues a multimillion-dollar bet that they can win in November, new campaign finance reports show. Democrat Ned Lamont gave his campaign more than $1.6 million...

Six years ago, Elizabeth Anderson was looking for a way to burn some calories, relieve stress and get out of her house for an hour. She was working as an anesthetist at Hartford Hospital and raising four kids, while her husband, Kevin, a colonel in the Marine Corps, was deployed to the Middle East....

When political opponents come from the dog-eat-dog world of corporate America, it’s only a matter of time before campaigns start digging for dirt in their rivals’ past business practices — and building TV ads out of the morsels they find. That approach can be seen in a new spot from Democratic...

For Normando and Ziomara Moquete, their son Noah has filled the role of his biblical namesake. “He’s our ark,” his father says. “He saved us from drowning.” Noah, 13, was born a little more than a year after his brother, Ethan, died of the same malady that taints Noah’s blood — sickle cell disease....

Ekonk Hill Turkey Farm, in Connecticut’s Quiet Corner, is, appropriately, a place of tranquility. Over its 360 acres, thousands of broad-breasted white turkeys gobble and roam inside and outside of their huge barn. Other farm animals – sheep, goats, ducks, chickens, cows, donkeys – run around in...

A Hartford-based pilot program to develop an early warning system for spikes in opioid overdoses will expand next month to include the whole city. Aetna Ambulance Service is joining the program, which has gathered information on 172 overdoses, and six deaths, in the northern two-thirds of the city...

Trinity College received a $12.3 million bequest Thursday from the trust of Charles Guilford Woodward, a Hartford native who worked in the city’s insurance industry after graduating from Trinity in 1898. “We are truly grateful for such meaningful support, which will impact members of the Trinity...

In a 5-4 vote, the town council Wednesday rejected a proposal to build a 26-unit multifamily rental housing development at the corner of New Britain Avenue and Berkshire Road. The vote against the project, known as Berkshire West, followed a nearly three-hour public hearing that included about...

Mayor Luke Bronin has tapped Erik Johnson, a top official at New Haven’s housing authority, to lead Hartford’s development services department. Johnson replaces Sean Fitzpatrick, who resigned in January amid a controversy over his residency. Department heads are required to live in Hartford. Johnson...

For dentist Anatoliy Ravin, the wish to take care of as many patients as possible has turned into more of a struggle than he expected. During a rare break in his week comprised of 12-hour work days, Ravin recently stopped for a quick breakfast with his 12-year-old son, Matthew, as the two prepared...