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After shelter space peaked in 2010, the number of emergency beds and transitional housing units for Connecticut’s homeless has decreased by more than 34%, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual Housing Inventory Count Report.

In a rare December referendum, Farmington voters on Thursday approved covering cost overruns for the town’s new high school by raising the construction budget $9.7 million.

Dr. Ryaz Ansari, an oral surgeon in West Hartford, uses a dental robot to guide him when he is drilling a patient's mouth to create an implant. It's more precise and faster than manual surgery.

A Dec. 2 court filing between lawyers for Richard "Randy" Cox and New Haven is an agreement that both sides want to settle his $100 million lawsuit early and to assign it to a magistrate judge.

Rate hikes are coming January 1

Lamont told the crowd that he believes there is a bipartisan consensus to maintain fiscal discipline. He also claimed that the surplus is “burning a hole” in the pockets of legislators and he will need the audience’s help to stop that. It can’t be both.

He shared a table at a state dinner Thursday with President Joe Biden’s chief of staff and met Friday with his transportation secretary.

Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin will not seek re-election, he announced Tuesday.

“Since the pandemic, it’s getting very overwhelmed,” Teasley said. “There’s not enough space for the amount of people on the streets.” In the overburdened and underfunded system, the most vulnerable slip through the cracks.

In a rare move, three Hartford area museums will collaborate on marketing and exhibitions as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.