Where $10 billion in CT budget surpluses went. And why it matters to state residents.

By pouring more than $10 billion in budget surpluses into its cash-starved pension system since 2020, Connecticut has stemmed ...

Interest is growing in a way to decrease electricity prices plaguing CT. What to know.

Faced with sky-high electricity costs, state officials in Connecticut are seeking ways to increase supply and bring down ...

Lamont pledges $70M for health care after US Senate deadlocks

CT will spend $70 million of the emergency surplus funds it set aside to partly offset the looming loss of millions in ACA ...

Indiana Republicans block redistricting push in a rare break with Trump

Indiana Republican senators voted down a new congressional map created to give the GOP an advantage in the upcoming 2026 ...

Trump pardons election-denier Tina Peters, but it alone won't free her from prison

The former Colorado elections administrator was convicted of orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims of ...

Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide

The lawsuit claims OpenAI designed a defective product that validated a user’s paranoid delusions, leading him to kill his ...

Lamont unveils plan to help low-income residents expecting health premiums to increase

Connecticut Governor Ned. Lamont says the state will step in to fill in the gap for Connecticut residents expecting to see ...

Lamont uses $70M to offset ACA subsidy cuts, protecting health-care costs for 100,000 CT residents

HARTFORD — Within minutes of a narrow vote in the U.S. Senate that defeated Democratic attempts to extend subsidies for the ...

Florida leads nation in cuts to environmental protection jobs, report says

The state cut 19% of the full-time jobs at its Department of Environmental Protection from 2010 to 2024, according to the ...

Abbott fired a warning shot on baby formula — then launched a lobbying blitz

The company that makes one of the two most widely used brands of formula for premature babies is threatening to stop. Here's ...

US jobless benefit applications jump to 236,000, but continuing claims are lowest since April

The total number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the previous week ending Nov. 29 fell by 99,000 to 1.84 million, the government said. That’s the lowest level for continuing claims since ...
Opinion

Nearly 40K people have died on California roads in the past 20 years. State law hasn't changed

Nearly 40,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been injured in crashes on California's roads over the past two decades. But CalMatters reports state lawmakers have done little to ...