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Over the past several decades, voting by mail has become more popular across the country. According to the States United Action nonprofit organization, 31% of voters – about 48 million – cast their ballot through the mail in the 2024 election, with white voters, voters over 65 and military personnel being the most likely to vote by mail.
The EPA revoked limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, rejecting decades of settled science to argue that they do not contribute to dangerous air pollution.
The forum will include Jorge X. Camacho, assistant law professor at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Ken Barone, of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy; Gus Marks-Hamilton of ACLU-Connecticut and Milford Police Chief Keith Mello.
The heavy rains and flash flooding that struck Connecticut Sunday forced emergency workers to rescue dozens of stranded motorists from cars stuck in deep rainwater, but did not cause any injuries or fatalities, state officials said Monday.
The four new weekday trains will improve the overall service schedule, introduce a new connection with an existing Metro-North Super Express train and reduce lengthy gaps between scheduled trains, giving customers more flexibility when planning trips along the Shore Line East corridor.
The American Gaming Association estimates $40 billion will be wagered on the NFL using prediction markets this year. On the first day of the 2026 college football season last week, one prediction market reported nearly $250 million in trading volume on college football alone, according to Lamont’s office.
CTDOT launched the program in 2023, after 13 wrong way crashes in 2022 resulted in 23 fatalities. Since then, it has expanded its program to become one of the largest Wrong Way Detection Programs in the country, earning the agency a national award.
If the election were today, 49% of voters would want to see the Democratic Party win control of the U.S. House, while 38% would want to see the Republican Party win control, with 13% not offering an opinion, according to the poll results.
The governor’s race entered its home stretch Thursday, with the two campaigns holding events less than a mile and less than an hour apart, and with plenty of claims and counterclaims going back and forth.
State government officials welcomed a delegation from Donetsk Oblast, Connecticut’s sister state in Ukraine, to the State Capitol Wednesday afternoon.
In both lawsuits, Tong and the coalition argue the services’ rationale for gutting habitat protections is contrary to the intent of the ESA, which Congress enacted to protect endangered and threatened wildlife and the ecosystems they depend on for survival.
Among the measures were an elimination on sales tax on meals sold in grocery stores, elimination of the public benefits charge on utility bills, a one-year gas tax holiday and an elimination of the highway use tax - a mileage-based tax on heavy commercial vehicles that helps fund road and bridge maintenance.
Tong said the platform had not gone far enough to verify ages for users or screen for sexual content, especially content which features exploitation of children. He also shared research that showed one-third of American teens use the messaging app to connect with friends and businesses, and that 70% of the platform’s users are between the ages of 13 and 24.
The Connecticut Department of Transportation has announced that Chester-Hadlyme ferry service is temporarily closed for repairs to the 76-year-old Selden III.
The audit, which covered fiscal years 2023, 2024 and 2025, also highlighted outdated guidelines, obsolete terminology and inconsistencies.
