Matt Dwyer
Midday News Anchor / Producer, Where We LiveMatt Dwyer is a producer for Where We Live and a reporter and midday host for Connecticut Public's news department.
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The mayor of Enfield, Conn. says LEGO has provided the building blocks of the community for fifty years and he is saddened at the company’s plans to depart. -
Researchers found that school districts in poor cities and towns in Connecticut had a more difficult time shifting to remote learning than more affluent communities.
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Researchers from several colleges in Connecticut said Thursday that a state Department of Education trial program has increased attendance by 15 percentage points in the schools where it was put in place.
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Demoliton has begun at the former SHW Casting plant, which city officials described as "an industrial wasteland." "If you have ever seen [the movie] 'RoboCop,'" one official said, "the scenes at the end in the deserted factory in old Detroit, that’s basically the site.”
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The state Supreme Court has declined to make a decision on the underlying issues of a school mask mandate case.
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Sworn into office for a second four-year term, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday called on state legislators to pass a "meaningful middle class tax cut," saying it's time for the state to refocus on economic growth and opportunity now that the emergency of the pandemic is fading.
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Fix approved for 'unintended consequence' that locked some CT residents into service with EversourceState regulators issued a decision Wednesday intended to address problems with a trial electric program to help people avoid shut-offs.
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A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut's policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to race against transgender athletes.
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The state Department of Public Health announced Thursday that the child was under the age of 10, lived in New Haven County and died sometime in December.
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Connecticut State Police arrested five New Haven officers Monday on criminal charges of reckless endangerment and cruelty to persons.
