Kay Perkins

Gov. Ned Lamont announced that he'll add an overhaul of the state’s waste management system to the legislative package he will propose in February. His proposals would tackle the 40% of Connecticut’s waste that is shipped to other states as well as food waste and recycling.

Connecticut lawmakers announced Wednesday that they plan to reintroduce federal legislation aimed at parents who leave firearms unsecured in their homes.

Many school districts ran out of federal pandemic funding that allowed them to offer free school lunches to all students. Some lawmakers now want to change that.

Seven medical marijuana operators will expand their businesses to include the new market for adults 21 and over, and they opened for adult-use customers Tuesday.

Middletown residents gathered Friday, Jan. 6, on Middletown’s South Green to honor the life of Quentin Williams, a 39-year-old state representative known as “Q.”

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London Wednesday. The Gold Star is one of four bridge projects across the country receiving funding from the first round of a highly competitive grant program in President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Members of the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) attended the United Nations COP27 Convention on Climate to confer with other experts and leaders about how forests can help fight climate change.

A food pantry that started as a class project at the University of Connecticut’s Stamford location will soon feed hundreds of food-insecure students on four different campuses.

Make the Road Connecticut, an immigrant advocacy organization, rallied on Wednesday for better health care services for non-English-speaking communities. The rally launched a wider initiative called “Access to Health Without Barriers.”

In 2019, Connecticut was home to the sixth-largest concentration of Puerto Ricans in the United States.