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 ...

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 ...

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.

UConn would also explore the possibility of creating a state center for the study of the phenomena, under the bill.

During testimony that stretched for hours at the state capitol, critics argued the legislation would give Connecticut's Public Health Commissioner sweeping power to set vaccination schedules and ...