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Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Fazio swung big Tuesday, unveiling an plan to cut income taxes that he insists would return $2,000 to $2,500 annually to middle-class families by 2031.

In the wake of a four-day immigration enforcement operation that rocked Danbury last month, U.S.

An appeals court temporarily lifted a ban on federal funding changes last week, a move advocates say puts thousands of Connecticut residents at risk of homelessness.

An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases, escalating an ongoing legal battle over the government spending billions of dollars to block wind projects.

A video recorded at the America Fest conference in December by Will Gifford, a 21-year-old journalism student nominated in May by Republicans for the General Assembly, shows Gifford nodding in seeming agreement as a white Christian nationalist figure tells

Sunscreen, time, money, volunteers, voter data, clipboards, shoe leather.

It has been said that 90% of the senators and state representatives that work in congress in Washington, D.C. take substantial amounts of money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee otherwise known as AIPAC or the Israel lobby.

If there is such a thing as a typical international fugitive, it clearly is not Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis.

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Distribution of the overdose-reversal drug naloxone is a key part of the state’s efforts to reduce overdose deaths in Connecticut.

One of my earliest memories is climbing from my dad’s arms onto his back while he waterskied across Lake Lillinonah.

What would you want to know before a building that uses as much electricity as every home in Norwalk moved in down the road?

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Reviewing a column I wrote in 2008 I realized that some of my “horror story” predictions have almost come true, even though gasoline prices haven’t quite hit that $10 per gallon trigger point.

After fleeing the country to avoid being sentenced Thursday on federal corruption charges, Konstantinos Diamantis on Friday sued state officials who announced that they were cutting off his state pension payments.

These news briefs are part of The Connecticut Mirror’s 2026 political coverage.

Grand River Solutions issued an excoriating report Thursday of the circumstances surrounding Interim Chancellor John Maduko’s abrupt departure from the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system earlier this year.

The Trump administration illegally terminated a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans, a federal judge in Rhode Island ruled Friday.

Another offshore wind project just wrapped up turbine construction in the U.S., despite the Trump administration issuing not one but two stop-work orders against the installation.

In the 1939 movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” our young heroine, Dorothy, is alone and terrified as a cyclone approaches.

The number of Connecticut youths accessing emergency shelters has increased by about 5% from 2025 to 2026, and resources for that population are thin, homeless service providers said.

More than eight in 10 voters support tapping the state’s flush coffers to bolster human service programs weakened by severe federal cutbacks, according to a new poll commissioned by Connecticut nonprofit social service agencies.

Henry Williams read the news of the release of long-suppressed 9/11 city documents last week with curiosity, but he soon found a confusing portal without any context or guide.

If you watched the news over the last days of August, you saw video of an almost inconceivable wave of destruction in Nepal.

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A report released Thursday by the Office of the Child Advocate showed a slight decline in “non-natural child fatalities” in 2025 in Connecticut, although the office noted a concerning increase in the percentage of children under 15 who had died by suicide.

After a years-long effort to exert pressure on Russia for its war in Ukraine, Congress took the final step in passing a sanctions bill before lawmakers departed for campaign season.

Speaking before more than 400 members of Connecticut’s business community on Thursday morning, the state’s candidates for governor mapped out plans for the economy that shared common roots but veered in very different directions, highlighting key policy d…

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Every year on September 17, we celebrate Constitution Day, also known as Citizenship Day.

School districts around Connecticut are preparing to distribute thousands of free bus passes to high school students under a new program administered by the state.

Facing a potential sentence Thursday of more than a decade in prison for bribery and extortion committed as a high-ranking state official, a defiant Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis informed his lawyer Wedneday evening he has fled to Greece, beyond the easy…

For years, Connecticut’s position atop the list of states with the priciest electric bills has served as an election-year mantra for Republicans and other critics of the state’s climate-conscious energy strategy.

Amid a surge in the national debate about the dangers of artificial intelligence, Comptroller Sean Scanlon on Wednesday announced regulations governing the use of AI technology by health insurance companies that administer benefits for the state employee…

The first Quinnipiac University poll of Connecticut’s race for governor found Gov.

Four rural Connecticut hospitals are getting millions in federal grant dollars that will be used to expand and upgrade imaging, telehealth and transport services, among other initiatives.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority ordered rate decreases for customers of two Connecticut gas companies on Wednesday, following a lengthy legal battle in which regulators admitted making procedural errors under former PURA chief Marissa Gillett.

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This story was originally reported by Jasmine Mithani and Mariel Padilla of The 19th.

Declining birth rates mean fewer students.

Connecticut is about to change the way it taxes cannabis, and the state’s own fiscal analysis says the change will reduce cannabis-tax revenue.

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New reporting from ProPublica has revealed that a Russian Oligarch with deep ties to President Vladimir Putin paid for the wedding after-party of President Donald Trump’s son.

Connecticut’s independent prison watchdog DeVaughn Ward said Tuesday he plans to leave the post next month and join a personal injury law firm.

A Superior Court judge in Stamford on Monday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Connecticut law that eliminated religious exemptions from school vaccine requirements.

A Hillhouse High School assistant principal turned himself in for arrest on Monday night after police issued a warrant alleging that he sexually assaulted an underage student on two occasions during school hours.

A Greenwich resident has filed a class action lawsuit against the town over its controversial automated speed camera program.

My days begin with a walk in nature, whether through my historic New England town or along the Connecticut shoreline.