Bridgeport’s new school superintendent, Royce Avery, makes it a habit of handing out his business card to every speaker at listening sessions, including one recently held at the public library’s North Branch.

An affordable housing apartment complex in Stamford that has been under renovation for two-and-half years has reopened. Spruce Heights is the new name for the former housing cooperative, Coleman Towers. The redevelopment also resulted in an increase in the number of apartments, from 89 to more than 130.

A free state pilot program, which sends nurses and health workers to the homes of new mothers and newborns in the Bridgeport area, is expanding to Norwich.

At the start of the project, Mill Pond was a stagnant, trash-filled pool of water in the heart of Stamford.

Few people in Bridgeport would consider mayoral elections cute and adorable, but one red panda at the Beardsley Zoo is the exception to the rule.

More than 20 neglected properties across 18 Connecticut towns and cities will be fixed up and redeveloped for new housing and businesses, using $20 million in state grants.

The new Fairfield Avenue Bridge that rests over Interstate 95 in Norwalk is now finally open to traffic, ahead of schedule and under budget, months after a fiery crash made the previous bridge structurally unsound.

The PSEG Plant, in service from the 1950s to 2021, used to power much of Bridgeport’s business base, but shuttered as the state signaled a move away from fossil fuels. Demolition is expected to occur within a three-year timespan, removing a visible part of the city’s skyline. While the site is expected to be a draw due to its location near the waterfront, officials say environmental remediation is needed.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said Tuesday the state will do what it can to protect the estimated over 100,000 undocumented people that live in Connecticut, as the state braces for a wave of federal deportations.

Iranian dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad revealed on Friday she was the target of an assassination plot by Iran’s government. It was intended to happen while she was at Fairfield University in Connecticut.