Politics & Policy

Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed legislation to set new safeguards for artificial intelligence while urging a regional approach to AI oversight, arguing that states should not be barred from acting in the absence of federal standards.

Gov. Ned Lamont is renewing a push to regulate warehouse productivity quotas, reviving a politically contentious issue.

Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature’s Democratic majority are closing out the first week of the General Assembly’s election-year session with two literal votes of confidence in the governor and the absence, at least for now, of the tensions typically inherent to the release of his budget proposal.

Connecticut lawmakers will be pushing to regulate the online activity of minors and better protect the data privacy of residents, Attorney General William Tong and state Sen. James Maroney, D-Milford, announced on Thursday.

Connecticut’s commuter rail and bus services will continue running at current levels for the next year under Gov. Ned Lamont’s latest budget proposal, which otherwise warned of an impending fiscal cliff due to loss of pandemic-era federal funding for rail.

The Connecticut Senate opened its 2026 session Wednesday by quickly acting on legislation that would extend Gov. Ned Lamont’s emergency powers to unilaterally draw on contingency funding as needed to cope with federal cuts.

The disbanding of the much-criticized Office of Health Strategy and a revised hospital tax agreement topped Gov....

Though Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed $200-per-person election-year rebate will dominate the political conversation, most of the $28.7...

There are 107 bills — 82 in the Senate, 25 in the House — already proposed by legislators as the state General Assembly convenes its 2026 session on Wednesday.

Connecticut’s congressional delegation split over a government funding deal that ended the brief partial shutdown on Tuesday and starts the clock for Congress to negotiate reforms to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in less than two weeks.