Colleen Murphy retired on Feb. 27 after 35 years with the CT Freedom of Information Commission, the last 21 as its leader.

On Monday, the legislative Appropriations Committee will hold a public hearing on proposed contracts with the Connecticut ...

Connecticut students demanded increased funding for education without confronting deeper issues affecting schools, Chris Powell writes.

Since Connecticut passed the FOIA — one of the nation’s strongest such open-government public records and meetings laws — in 1975, elected officials from both parties have in different ways sought to ...

Hartford is home to the state government, some of the state’s largest private-sector employers and an abundance of cultural attractions. Now, local business leaders and public officials want to ...

Connecticut has automatically erased more than 150,000 criminal records under the state’s Clean Slate law, but many of the people whose convictions were wiped away may not know it.

Cuba’s government said Thursday night that it would release 51 people from the island’s jails in an unexpected move. Cuba’s ...

CT's Judicial Branch has canceled plans to open a 20-bed juvenile detention facility in Tolland, a project that sparked fierce opposition.

On the day Senate Bill 386, which would allow municipalities to voluntarily adopt ranked choice voting in party caucuses and primaries and some municipal elections, cleared the Government ...

The U.S. economy, hobbled by last fall’s 43-day government shutdown, advanced at an unexpectedly sluggish 0.7% annual rate from October through December, the Commerce Department reported Friday in a ...

The Trump administration is suing California over the state's nation-leading vehicle emission standards. The lawsuit escalates an ongoing battle over the state's efforts to curb pollution from ...

Court documents show less than two years after Mohamed Bailor Jalloh was released from prison for attempting to aid the ...