Connecticut Government News

The National Transportation Safety Board has issued an urgent safety recommendation after a railroad track foreman was struck and killed by a passenger train last month in Connecticut.

The governors of Texas and South Dakota visited Connecticut on Monday to court gun manufacturers that have threatened to leave since the state passed tough new gun-control laws this year in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School .

French and U.S. experts are continuing their search for the 17th-century ship Griffin, which they believe sank in northern Lake Michigan in 1679.

A bridge maintenance project along I-684 northbound in Greenwich will begin Monday, the Connecticut Department of Transportation announced on its website.

The country's newest Miss USA is leaving a white collar job behind for the glamour and excitement that goes with her new role - and she can't wait.

Consumer activist and failed presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be honored by the Connecticut Bar Association at its annual meeting.

A group of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia are preparing to smile and strut their way toward the 62th Miss USA title.

Searchers have scaled back efforts to find a commercial photographer who went missing last week after telling his wife he was heading to Connecticut's Housatonic River to retrieve a lost bicycle.

Connecticut Democrats are defending a new campaign finance law former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell says dismantles ethics, contracting and campaign reforms she signed into law.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has kicked off his northeast tour where he'll make stops in New York and Conn.

"Buddy's Law," a new law championed by Greenwich Rep. Fred Camillo that allows only licensed veterinarians to euthanize dogs and cats, was officially passed by the Connecticut General Assembly.

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Its coat has turned from light to brown, but the rare white bison that caused a stir among Native Americans is still attracting visitors a year after its birth.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that Connecticut was last in the nation in economic growth in 2012, the only state where the combined value of goods and services produced was lower than in 2011.

Participants in a small New Hampshire vigil marking six months since the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school held homemade posters such as "Remember Sandy Hook" and "NH Stands with Newtown."

NAMI Connecticut, the state organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is pleased to announce that it will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 20, 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m., at The Studio at Billings Forge, 563 Broad Street, in Hartford.

Republican Sam Belsito cruised to victory in Tuesday's special election to fill the seat of Rep. Bryan Hurlburt, D-Tolland, who had resigned to take a job with the USDA.

A Connecticut woman disfigured by a friend's pet chimpanzee was denied permission Friday to sue the state for $150 million because at the time of the attack, the law allowed private ownership of the animals.

Bells tolled and a moment of silence was observed Friday in Newtown on the six-month anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that took the lives of 26 children and teachers.

Amid the wreckage and detritus of the imploding legacy media, a silver lining can be found in the multiplicity of views now available on complicated subjects.