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The city of Dover dedicated a new 9/11 memorial at the Cocheco Mill Courtyard on Sept. 11, 2026. It honors the lives lost in the Sept. 11 attacks, including four people with ties to Dover, New Hampshire.

City leaders hope Dover’s new 9/11 memorial is a place for education and remembrance

The memorial will be unveiled on the 25th anniversary of Sept. 11. It honors the lives lost in the attacks, including four people with ties to Dover.

FILE: The streets are packed in Hartford for the 2025 Puerto Rico Day Parade on September 21, 2025.

Hartford Puerto Rican Day Parade 'fighting for the entire Hispanic community’

Greater Hartford Puerto Rican Parade and Festival del Coqui Parade Chairman Amilcar Hernandez said the event is about unity among Puerto Ricans and Latinos.

(L-R) Town Council members Carl Massaro, Anthony Dorsey, and Ann Sather listen as local residents give their testimonies on how they feel about the pre-existing data center moderinzing into an AI Data center at Trumbull town hall on September 9, 2026 in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Trumbull could become home to one of CT’s first AI data centers despite new 2-year moratorium

Trumbull's only data center, located at 80 Merritt Blvd., has been in operation for more than 50 years and is expected to be converted into a "high density, AI-ready" facility.

David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the Edward R. Roybal campus, the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. CDC is the national public health agency of the United States, under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

As diseases loom, CDC's response to measles deaths stirs fears about agency's reliability

The worst U.S. measles outbreak in decades is growing and flu season is imminent. Experts are fretting about federal health data reliability after the CDC questioned two Pennsylvania measles deaths.

El Nuevo Día reporter Itzel Rivera reacts while speaking with Connecticut Public Puerto Rican Communities reporter Rachel Iacovone in the Connecticut Public talk studio. (Mark Mirko / Connecticut Public)

El Nuevo Día journalist receives national award for work on CT Public's Puerto Rican reporting collaboration

The Overseas Press Club Excellence Awards celebrate the best journalistic work in print, multimedia, radio, and television. Reporter Itzel Rivera received the Special Award for Excellence in Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Journalism for her work with CT Public's Puerto Rican reporting collaboration.

Emmy Gallegos (right) dances with instructor Carlos Gallardo (left) during a celebration of Peru's independence day at the state capitol building in Hartford on July 26, 2024.

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month. Here’s where to celebrate in CT

Connecticut is home to more than half a million people of Hispanic origin, or nearly 1 in every 5 residents. What to call the group — Hispanic, Latino, Latinx, Latine, etc. — is still up for debate within these communities. What people with ancestral ties to Latin America can agree on is that the people, and their contributions to this state and nation as a whole, deserve to be celebrated.

The voices of Sept. 11: 'My first thought was ... I can't believe that I survived'

We listen back to interviews recorded in the aftermath of Sept. 11, with a particular focus on stories of survival and loss at the World Trade Center, and some reflections in poetry and music.

Connecticut family turns 9/11 loss into a legacy of education

Adam J. Lewis was working at the twin towers as a trader on the day of the attack. To honor his legacy in the years since, his family has built a school that bears his name.

Clockwise from left: The Social Reckoning, The Scout, Club Kid, Possible Love and Wildwood.

24 new movies worth checking out this fall

A Social Network follow-up, the real-life origin story of the movie Rocky, and more movies our critics are looking forward to this fall.

25 years later, Americans pause to remember the lives lost on 9/11

Twenty-five years ago, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. Today, Americans are honoring the lives lost and reflecting on the aftermath of that tragic day.

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