budgets

The two-year state budget might have a larger surplus than initially expected with state tax receipts surging by nearly $500 million since mid-May.

The coronavirus left unprecedented damage in its wake. Massive unemployment, education interrupted for hundreds of thousands of students, and a safety net…

The Senate overwhelmingly adopted the new $46.4 billion, two-year state budget Wednesday evening, sending the package to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk with…

The House of Representatives approved a $46.4 billion two-year state budget shortly after midnight Wednesday that avoids major tax hikes, pumps huge new…

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives approved a new highway usage tax on large commercial trucks Tuesday to bolster Connecticut’s ongoing…

A plan to give a nine-member state panel broad authority to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in state tax receipts in poor cities likely would…

Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders didn’t reach a deal Friday on a new two-year state budget, but they claimed that next step was just around the…

Union strikes at more than 200 group home locations across Connecticut have been called off in a late-hour funding deal between workers and state…

At least two nonprofit social service agencies that serve developmentally disabled people on behalf of the state began relocating hundreds of clients…

Unionized group home workers, and operators, are appealing to state leaders to set aside more funding for the industry as a strike scheduled for Friday…