An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers and injuring a dozen or more. The explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown, about 20 miles south of Hartford, could be heard and ...

Attracting high-tech jobs, reinstating highway tolls and pushing for more state employee givebacks were among the ideas floated Wednesday by candidates hoping to become Connecticut's next governor. Seven of the approximately 12 people running, or considering a run, for governor appeared at the first ...

Most Connecticut state employees have Christmas Eve off, but not by choice and not with pay. Thursday marks the third furlough day workers have taken during the current fiscal year. State employees, as part of a labor concessions agreement reached earlier this year between the unions ...

Legislative Democrats on Friday unveiled a plan to borrow $1 billion to pay for construction projects across Connecticut that they say will create more than 16,000 jobs. The 12-month initiative calls for funding previously authorized transportation, housing, energy conservation, clean water and higher education ...