The Latest Breaking News from Connecticut

Alaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades -- an immense relief one year after fires scorched an area roughly equivalent to the state of Connecticut

Police say a man accused of attacking a Connecticut lawmaker outside a Muslim prayer service this week made lewd comments to the woman and tried to kiss her

A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the assault and charged with third-degree assault

Police say a 30-year-old man has been charged with assault for attacking a Connecticut state lawmaker as she left a prayer service

New Haven police commissioners voted 5-0 to dismiss Officer Oscar Diaz, the van driver, and Sgt. Betsy Segui, the detention area supervisor

Two more Connecticut police officers have been fired for what officials called their misconduct and lack of compassion in how they treated Richard “Randy” Cox after he was paralyzed in the back of a police van last year

A new audit says hundreds of Connecticut state police troopers falsified information on at least 26,000 traffic stops from 2014 to 2021, skewing statewide reports on the race and ethnicity of pulled-over motorists

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr., a larger-than-life former U.S. senator and governor who helped create the state income tax while becoming one of the most dominant figures in Connecticut politics for decades, died Wednesday after a short illness, his family confirmed.

Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut governor Lowell P

University of Connecticut officials welcomed a new celebrity to campus, and they say he’s a very good boy

University of Connecticut officials welcomed a new celebrity to campus, and they say he’s a very good boy