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Tyler Russell/Connecticut PublicGroups across the nation, including CT For All, are calling for a change to state tax codes as one solution to fill gaps in state budgets made by sweeping cuts in the federal tax and spending bill. -
Ayannah Brown/Connecticut Public“You are making history,” one House leader told Pemberton.
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Anti-ICE protests continued in front of the state Capitol on Tuesday, days after pepper spray and an alleged hit-and-run incident at a Hartford protest. -
Seals and migratory birds are the stars of the show on Long Island Sound. -
Connecticut’s 211 emergency assistance hotline is being inundated with calls. The state recently allocated an additional $2.6 million to increase call response. -
The ruling hands a temporary victory to developers involved in an offshore project intended to power more than 300,000 homes in Connecticut and Rhode Island. -
Hartford police are now investigating potential hit-and-run and assault charges against those involved. -
Connecticut activists gathered to speak out against immigration policy, hold a vigil for the Minneapolis mother killed by an ICE agent, and celebrate the end of deportation flights by Avelo after months of protest. -
The Hartford demonstration remained peaceful on Main Street, where speakers called for unity against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement. But nearby, about a dozen protesters were pepper sprayed while attempting to stop what they thought was an ICE vehicle. -
Former police chief Karl Jacobson says he took $10,000 from an account meant to compensate police informants, according to city officials. -
Outfitted with a long aluminum wire, this helicopter carries eight rotating saw blades to cut trees along a transmission corridor from East Haddam to Middletown. -
The program “did not deliver enough consistent and predictable revenue,” the airline said in a statement.
