Sixteen municipalities are being awarded $8.7 million in state grants that will help the communities revitalize and remediate specific brownfield properties.
The Hartford area office OSHA cited Phoenix Products Co. of the Terryville section of Plymouth for 15 serious violations of workplace safety standards.
Nearly two dozen Connecticut communities will share $2.7 million in White House grants to prevent youth drug abuse and the state's “second chance'' initiatives, authorities say.
The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection swore in three new environmental officers on Tuesday morning in Hartford, filling vacancies in the state's oldest police force.
Waterbury's All-Star Transportation said it has acquired Plymouth's Worhunsky Corp., which will extend All-Star's school bus transportation service to several districts in Litchfield and New Haven counties.
The Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce said it has hired James Albert, an Air Force veteran and former chief information officer at several area hospitals, as its new CEO.
Gov. Dannel Malloy's office said 169 schools in the state will share $5 million for school security infrastructure improvements made in the wake of the December school shooting in Newtown.