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Religious leaders across Connecticut are backing legislation that would fast-track affordable housing development on church-owned land — and they say their congregations have both the property and the purpose to help address the state's worsening housing shortage.

Two business owners who received nearly $2 million in state grants with the help of Sen. Doug...

The Connecticut Science Center and Boehringer Ingelheim have launched a new Innovation Lab aimed at expanding STEM education opportunities.

The Wadsworth has restored its Wednesday public hours for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, funded by a $1 million, five-year grant from Travelers.

Two new businesses in West Hartford are set to formally mark their openings.

Hartford Public Library has turned its downtown café into a workforce training ground, partnering with a local nonprofit that employs people with disabilities to run a new coffee shop that is open to the public.

State lawmakers are considering legislation that would create a new state watchdog agency tasked with uncovering fraud, waste and abuse in government programs following recent controversies involving state grants to nonprofit organizations.

Gov. Ned Lamont used his line-item veto power Tuesday to cut grants and earmarks worth $4 million from six sections of Senate Bill 298, a 98-section emergency-certified bill that sped with little review to passage last week by the General Assembly.

A group of state lawmakers and advocacy organizations plan Wednesday to unveil legislation creating a Connecticut Child Tax Credit.

Gov. Ned Lamont has proposed a bill intended to strengthen Connecticut’s nonprofit health and human services providers as they face increasing financial and administrative pressures tied to federal policy changes.