Dave Altimari / CT Mirror

Connecticut state officials Monday outlined a new safety program for home health care workers that will include GPS monitoring and escorts to potentially risky clients.

The state is assigning two election monitors to oversee the shortened absentee ballot application process prior to a court-ordered second Democratic primary between Mayor Joe Ganim and challenger John Gomes next month.

The state has already distributed more than $750,000 to residents of Hartford’s North End, but some people are already seeking changes to the state's flooding relief program.

If John Gomes were to defeat Mayor Joe Ganim, there be another general election, with Gomes’ name on the top line.

State police union officials on Wednesday said that 20% of the 130 state troopers accused of either submitting false ticket data or underreporting their numbers to a racial profiling database have been exonerated since the release of the audit a few weeks ago.

Both Williams and the wrong-way driver who caused the fatal crash had blood-alcohol levels far above 0.08%, a state police investigation found.

Chips of lead paint are falling off hundreds of bridges in Connecticut at such a rate that the state Department of Transportation has put out an alert to municipalities and intends to hire contractors to clean it up.

The state has terminated the contract of AAIS, a West Haven hazardous waste remediation company. It's ensnared in the federal investigation into former state official Konstantinos Diamantis.

The state Employees’ Review Board has dismissed a grievance filed by Konstantinos Diamantis.

As the health care industry becomes more and more concentrated, some small private practices find it difficult to compete with big health care systems. So, instead, they’re joining them. As of January, hospitals owned 26% of physician practices nationwide, up from 14% a decade ago. An additional 27% of practices were owned by a corporation, such as a health insurer or a private equity firm, leaving fewer than half of physician practices under independent ownership. But, to the patient, does it really matter whether practices are owned independently or by a health system?