Connecticut Economic Development

Next door to Art Emporium, the art supply and picture framing business that he's run for 25 years in this town, Robert Jerome sees the potential of "The Kate." Theater, public art displays, comedy and music could all be part of the Katharine Hepburn...

Ron Van Winkle is named as interim town manager named in West Hartford. Bloomfield schools set a referendum for November. An 85-year-old in Windsor gets married and a convicted felon from Hartford is sentenced to 10 years for criminal possession of a...

Suspect wanted in the kidnapping and slaying of Ashley Peoples has been featured on America's Most Wanted TV show. State offers a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person for the 2005 killing of Anne Caro, a...

There's hope that Hamilton Sundstrand may regain its spacesuit contract with NASA. The former Stevenson Lumber property in Suffield is being heavily marketed. Enfield has teamed with two other towns to air commercials combating underage drinking. WINDSOR...

The Army issues an apology to Middletown residents and reopens the selection for a new regional training facility location, Republicans in Cromwell are fighting with the first selectman and state police have launched an internal investigation on whether...

Some property owners who never had to think about flood insurance soon will feel a tug on their wallets. Hartford area communities are rolling out reconfigured flood maps, and some properties are now included in a flood plain for the first time. Mortgage...

Stevenson Lumber, once a major player in the Northeast building industry, has auctioned off its equipment and is now marketing its prime real estate in Suffield and Monroe. The defunct company sold off millions of dollars worth of equipment, including 44...

Having conquered Hartford and recently staked a claim in casino country, Larry Gottesdiener is staring down I-91 at New Haven, where a new Long Wharf Theater is expected to star in the reinvention of the city center. Gottesdiener's Northland Investment...

CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED www.yedies.blogspot.com No Sanctuary Hartford's city council voted unanimously [Monday] to make Hartford a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. While crime is rampant and children are being shot in their strollers, the best...

Connecticut sued three of the nation's leading credit-rating firms yesterday, alleging they gave artificially low credit ratings to cities and towns that ultimately cost taxpayers millions of dollars in unnecessary insurance and higher interest payments....

Despite reports this week that the federal government is looking at Mississippi as its pick for a facility to study some of the world's most deadly biological threats, some shoreline residents wary of research conducted on Plum Island in Long Island Sound...

In the 1990s, a minister asked Trinity College President Evan Dobelle how his church could get involved in the city. "Take care of your corner," Mr. Dobelle advised. That philosophy has been the underpinning of one of Hartford's most successful...