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Connecticut officials project the state will end its fiscal year on June 30 with an additional $86.2 million budget surplus. That’s more than had been projected just a month ago.

A new report from the legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis found General Fund overtime spending of most state agencies went up $20.4 million, or about 11%, during the first three-quarters of this fiscal year, which began last July 1. Total overtime spending approached $207 million.

John Bernardo, one of four defendants accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city of West Haven, pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge on Tuesday.

State worker retirements in 2022 are nearly double the number of retirements state government has faced annually between 2019 and 2021.

Cost now exceeds $255 million for project that was pitched at $93 million.

GOP: Lamont is following former Gov. John Rowland’s reelection playbook

Municipal Accountability Review Board will have power over West Haven’s budgets and more

The new state budget includes policy language prohibiting the administration from reducing any departmental budgets as long as the state is in the black.

GOP says tax relief was too modest given massive budget surplus

$24 billion budget invests in child care and social services, allows CT to retire $3.5 billion more in pension debt.