New Haven is one step closer to one more electric garbage truck — but still under 10 percent of the way to its goal of a ...

A fight broke out at the U.S. District courthouse Tuesday after a judge sentenced a 20-year-old to nearly 21 years in prison ...

Is COMPASS a Yale-backed public relations stunt -- or a good faith and effective effort to improve crisis response services ...

Police have arrested a 17-year-old New Havener for the December shooting death of 17-year-old Riverside Academy student Daily ...

• A jury will finally be selected to begin the trial of Qinxuan Pan for the 2021 murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.

(Opinion) How about this New Haven T‑shirt slogan?: “We’re round and flat.” Decorated with New Haven-crafted frisbees, pizzas, burgers, clocks, and lollipops? My hunch is that we may see snappier, ...

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A Democratic mayor swore in a Republican election official with calls for bispartisan cooperation as GOP members cheered them on. Yes, that really happened. Wednesday evening. In New Haven. When Mayor ...

(Hartford) Connecticut’s towing industry better watch out. There’s a new sheriff in town — and he’s got his sights set on scrapping storage fees, eliminating “patrol towing,” requiring companies to ...

Cellphone-restricting pouches are officially headed for all New Haven middle and high schools, now that alders have approved a nearly $371,000 contract with the tech-securing company Yondr. At a full ...

It’s a great time to be a banana peel in New Haven — as the city has installed three new public composting bins as part of a pilot program to help divert food scraps from the landfill. The ...

A state judge approved the no-fault eviction of an Edgewood family after cautioning both landlord and tenant about the quicksand-like perils of oral, rather than written, leases. State Superior Court ...