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A citizens’ group called Monday for Connecticut to impose interstate highway tolls and a surcharge on millionaires’ earnings to finance billions of dollars in local property tax relief, including repeal of the municipal motor vehicle levy. ctmirror.org/2026/10/26/c...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that it has opened an investigation into the firearms permitting process in two Connecticut cities. ctmirror.org/2026/10/23/d...

Local officials in many parts of Connecticut are not waiting for the national data center boom to come to them. Efforts to enact moratoriums and complete bans on data center development have outpaced actual proposals for new facilities. ctmirror.org/2026/10/25/d...

The DOJ said it will investigate whether local authorities are "unnecessarily" delaying or denying gun permits in both cities.

Republican Ryan Fazio worked aggressively Thursday in his first televised debate with Gov. Ned Lamont to reframe the gubernatorial election.

Domestic and family violence killings have held steady and now account for about one-third of Connecticut's homicides.

The expenditure is small but noteworthy in a campaign for CT governor that hasn't seen big spending from Super PACs on either side.

A billionaire couple's proposal to transform a shuttered power plant overlooking L.I. Sound into a park cleared a major hurdle Wednesday.

The Connecticut State Department of Education hired Kathleen Reiser to fill a newly-created role of dedicated special education attorney.

U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro will face Republican Chris Lancia and two other opponents. She's seeking a 19th term in the New Haven-based seat.

CT residents can install some plug-in solar without notifying their utility. But safety codes have yet to catch up with the new devices.

Eligible childcare workers can receive money annually toward insurance premiums for Access Health CT plans.

Aleysha Ortiz graduated in 2024 without knowing how to read, then sued the Hartford district. McMahon offered thoughts on what went wrong.

The CT Citizens Assembly on Property Taxes declined Comptroller Sean Scanlon's request to withhold its proposals until after the election.

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney faces Republican George Austin, who hopes to improve his party's chances despite a tough political environment.

The Westport Museum needs to raise $750,000 by the end of the year to stay in the 1795 home where it's operated since 1985.

Luke Bronin won the Democratic primary and goes into the general election with the upper hand. He faces Republican Amy Chai on Nov. 3.

CT's electorate is approaching the election with deep distrust of the federal government and partisan differences over fiscal priorities.

Democrats outnumbered Republicans by nearly a 4-1 margin at the polls Monday in the first of 14 days of early voting in Connecticut.

Attacks on homeless people in Milford and Bridgeport have alarmed advocates, who say they are linked to the criminalization of homelessness.

The Connecticut Mirror, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization, is here to help with this voter guide — a look at the key dates to know ahead of Nov. 3, a one-stop-shop for election-related information. ctmirror.org/2026/10/19/c...

Democrats outnumbered Republicans by nearly a 4-1 margin at the polls Monday in the first of 14 days of early voting in Connecticut, the secretary of the state’s office reported Tuesday. ctmirror.org/2026/10/20/d...

With questions posed to a sample of more than 1,000 voters, a new Wesleyan SurveyLab CT poll takes a measure of voter attitudes towards their government. ctmirror.org/2026/10/19/p...

The artist-led, grassroots effort is a celebration of artists and art making in New Haven and West Haven throughout the month of October.

Diamantis's second corruption trial had been scheduled to begin in early December. His fugitive status has upended that schedule.

At least 29 large arrays have been approved or built on top of closed, capped landfills — a number that will likely increase in coming years.

Connecticut will be host to dozens of “No Kings” rallies on Saturday, but this time, the focus is on early voting.

Gov. Ned Lamont praised Connecticut’s sweeping housing legislation on Thursday for empowering towns and suburbs.

The CSCU system announced it will undertake a series of reforms following the resignation of former interim Chancellor John Maduko.

Eversource filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging state regulators’ decision to cut more than $500 million from the company’s reimbursement for responding to a series of powerful storms in Connecticut.

Poll designed by Wesleyan illustrates CT Republicans’ challenge in midterm

A letter with a suspicious substance targeted U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy's office in Hartford, and it was intercepted by law enforcement.

Mail-in ballots, or absentee ballots, began going out Oct. 2 in CT for the general election on Nov. 3. Here's what CT voters should know.

The legal battle over whether CT can revoke Kosta Diamantis' pension kicked off on Thursday in Hartford, but Diamantis was not present.

The candidates for CT governor both support measures to allow hunting of black bears, a controversial solution to rising bear encounters.

The ombuds probe cited serious complaints against Francisco Lupis related to patient care and no record of compliance with CT qualifications.

Lamont has not trailed in any public poll, with an average lead of about 15 points in four surveys released over the past four weeks.

A campaign finance report shows that Fazio did not get his Citizens’ Election Program grant of $18 million until July 15 due to a complaint.

The forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Litchfield County was likely the only debate between Hayes and Shea ahead of the election.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced the planned release of $12.7 million from the $500 million contingency fund to address the impact of federal cuts.

The government's efforts to halt Revolution Wind come as it's poised to begin producing its full, 704-megawatt output by the end of 2026.

A new report finds that CT's poverty rate increased post-pandemic and could worsen as changes and cuts to public benefits fully take effect.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy will fan out across the country in the final weeks before the midterm elections in an effort to boost Democrats’ chances. But he says he’ll spend the bulk of his time in Connecticut — for both campaigning and grassroots organizing. ctmirror.org/2026/10/12/c...

What would Trump’s executive order have meant for elections in Connecticut and what does the court’s decision change, if anything? And how is absentee voting different from “early” voting? ctmirror.org/2026/10/12/c...

Nancy Martinez was among roughly 100 people arrested by ICE in Connecticut that June, according to arrest data provided by ICE and published for public use by the Deportation Data Project. ctmirror.org/2026/10/11/c...

Towns like South Windsor, Windsor, Killingworth, Ledyard, Milford and Newtown have ended or suspended use of license plate readers in 2026.

Connecticut libraries are seeing an uptick in “soft censorship” of books that receive complaints or informal challenges from patrons.

CEO Joe Nolan's comments to investors, and published texts between the two leaders, have undercut the governor's tough stance on the utility.

Compared to other cities and towns around the U.S., several CT municipalities were more walkable than most, according to 2025 data.

The U.S. Treasury Department released its proposed rules for the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit. CT educators don't like what they see.