Plus: Proposed hospital provider tax changes, a pitch for three-year bachelor's degrees, and a family caregiver tax credit bill advances.

Among the proposals is a provision to allow absentee ballots to be filed over the internet and to ban guns from polling places.

Lawmakers on Thursday questioned Gov. Ned Lamont’s nominee to lead Connecticut’s child welfare agency about whether the state is doing enough to protect children from harm and make sure they’re well ...

Waste management is a big one for CT: the state sends millions of tons of trash to other states, and it’s expensive. More than 40% of the state’s waste is shipped to places like Pennsylvania.

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 ...

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

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

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

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.