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UConn to the Pac-12: The good and the bad...

DIMAURO: If Pac-12 football comes knocking, UConn should answer the door...

Lawmakers OK Law Allowing CT Citizens To Sue ICE Agents; They Expect A Federal Challenge...

PAZ: House leaders calm lawmakers ticked off by first-term Dem Rep. Nick Menapace of East Lyme's TikTok...

HUGHES: TikTok video fuels tensions in Connecticut House of Representatives during ICE bill debate...

WATCH: MENAPACE squirms under questioning from WTNH's CERULLI ...

WATCH: MENAPACE's TikTok...

RITTER: 'It's easy to run your mouth on social media. Go look someone in the eye and make those same accusations. Everybody's real brave behind a camera at midnight'...

CANDELORA: 'This is an individual that was just elected and is a coward'...

RENNIE: Probe into alleged 'serious and troubling behavior' at high level in CT must continue...

PAZ: 46 And Done: Senate President Pro Tem MARTIN LOONEY will not run for reelection...

DIXON: Longtime Senate leader Martin Looney to step down from Connecticut's legislature after 46 years...

KEATING: Powerful CT Senate president pro tempore retiring after 46 years at Capitol...

WTNH'S CERULLI; LOONEY affirmatively endorsed Duff for next President and Paolillo to succeed him in his seat...

Hometown NH INDY's BREEN: LOONEY Won't Seek Reelection...

CT legislature adopts $28B budget with big aid for towns, childcare...

Connecticut Senate passes $28.6B budget that spends $900M outside cap...

BREUNIG: CT Water wants to raise rates 19% as clean water faces rising tide of challenges...

'A shared responsibility': Tribes honor missing and murdered Indigenous women at State Capitol...

CT child advocate: Letter to DCF ensured child death did not go 'unnoticed'...

House OKs solar bill; GOP targets impact on public benefits charge...

Sweeping labor legislation gains final passage, heads to LAMONT'S desk...

Bill limiting federal immigration actions gets final passage in CT House...

While CT evictions dip below national average, Fairfield County evictions show racial gap...

PORTFOLIO: CT Unions Promote May Day Actions That Raise Questions About Workplace Obligations...

'Sense of Belonging, Sense of Purpose;' A Conversation with Maj. Gen. Francis Evon...

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COURTNEY: TRUMP'S criticism of Australia unfair and harmful...

In divided NEW BRITAIN, mayor expresses no confidence in superintendent; RTC sues the mayor...

Tweed-New Haven expansion, 'various grants' find place in budget...

UConn sports ticket perk for lawmakers added to CT ethics proposal...

Connecticut passes AI regulations after years in development...

CT is much stronger fiscally as it tip-toes over spending cap...

Senate passes bill creating long-term care insurance safeguards...

More CT residents using 988 hotline; deaths by suicide fell in 2025...

Child Advocate letter points to DCF failings as CT House approves new oversight...

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More salt, more overtime: Snowstorm costs ravage public works budgets...

Connecticut looks to broaden psychedelic drug therapy access as Trump move boosts momentum...

POWELL: Party balloon litter is bad but 'nip' bottle litter is profit...

LARSON gets Working Families Party endorsement...

HAAR: Tense fight over a CT trash facility reveals faulty logic among lawmakers...

How much does it cost to remove 'forever chemicals' from water? East Lyme finds out...

'They were like brothers': How a Middletown football bond ended in an 'execution-type' killing...

PUNCHBOWL: HAYES 'a potential candidate for the top Dem spot on the Education and Workforce Committee'...

Last-minute revenue surge makes path to new CT budget easier...

Spring peeper, herald of warmer weather, could become CT state amphibian; beats out leopard frog...

CT lawmakers drop effort to ban Styrofoam takeout containers, again...

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