WEST HARTFORD — A West Hartford based technology company, We Care Computers, is collecting donated computer equipment, refurbishing it, and providing these devices to local students free of charge, according to an email from the company. It is working with school districts, municipalities, a…

WEST HARTFORD — The U.S. Figure Skating Association recognized Amelia Boardman ’20 of Simsbury for her academic accomplishments in addition to skating, according to an email from Kingswood Oxford School. Boardman received a pair of skates for Christmas when she was six, and she hasn’t left t…

WEST HARTFORD — The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine of Farmington, and the Town of West Hartford recently announced a collaboration to improve COVID-19 testing for the Town’s first responders and their families, according to an email from the town.

WEST HARTFORD — It takes a self-aware and introspective young student to understand her strengths and weaknesses and then pivot to find her passion. Enter Madeline Arcaro ’21 of West Hartford, who was just selected to be the representative for the State of Connecticut at the 2020 Al Neuharth…

WEST HARTFORD — Kate Farrar, Democratic candidate for State Representative in West Hartford’s 20th District, announced recently that she will be running in the party’s Primary in August.

WEST HARTFORD — West Hartford Kingswood Oxford junior Cohl D’Addabbo recently won second place in the West Hartford Library’s teen poetry contest for his poem, “Life in Quarantine: A Found Poem,” according to an email from the school.

Massachusetts is the only state in the Northeast that has recreational marijuana dispenseries.

Private campgrounds in Connecticut were allowed to open on May 20 if they followed components of the state’s plan for general business reopening.

Connecticut is one of 29 states that do not meet the World Health Organization’s guidelines for reopening, according to an analysis by Johns Hopkins University.

Nursing homes inspected for infection-control practices during the pandemic revealed deficiencies, including failure to separate COVID-positive residents from residents who do not have the virus, improper use or no use of personal protective equipment, failure to practice good hygiene and ha…

On Wednesday - days before the state of the Memorial Day weekend - DEEP released its operational plan that outlines for DEEP staff and visitors

CVS Health is opening 12 local COVID-19 testing sites at its pharmacies in Connecticut on Friday. It hopes to have 1,000 open across the country by the end of May, performing 1.5 million tests a month.

Major hospital groups in Connecticut opt not to use Abbott’s quick turnaround test for coronavirus because of high percentage of false negative results

West Haven police Sgt. Craig Thompson said the company disinfected about a dozen cruisers – the department’s active fleet.

Students applying to the University of Connecticut won’t need to submit standardized test scores for the next three years.

A judge ordered a Guilford teenager, accused of stabbing a Greenwich woman outside a Westport hair salon, released from a psychiatric hospital.

About 300 people gathered Wednesday in Hartford to protest not being part of the first phase of reopening or to raise concerns that their job should not have been part of the first wave.

Research studies on hydroxychloroquine have shown the drug has not been effective in treating COVID-19 and has serious side effects.

Osborn Correctional Institution, where about 150 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, has been on lockdown since last week.

Gov. Ned Lamont said he and other governors in the region are pushing Connecticut’s casinos to remain closed even as the tribes push ahead.

The Connecticut Food Bank, which services 270,000 people in its region, projects the pandemic will result in up to 187,000 additional residents becoming food insecure.

Five children are in intensive care at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, while three are in regular units there and at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

There’s only been one documented instance in the U.S of a dog infected with it, and while cats may be a little more susceptible, there only have been two cases in the U.S.

The energy delivery company provides electric and natural gas service in three states and also has the Aquarion Water Co. in Connecticut among its subsdiaries.

Comments from members a Reddit group focused on Connecticut take the grocery chain to task for using robots when keeping space between customers is critical.

The Milford Health Department kicked off the annual Mosquito Control Program, and encouraged residents to protect themselves against both diseases, in different ways.

Late Newtown police officer Stephen A. Ketchum will be honored Wednesday as his name joins those of other fallen officers on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.

Primary petitions can be done electronically; number of signatures needed reduced by governor.

Plasma transfusions are gaining traction at other hospitals throughout Connecticut and nationally as well, as doctors wait for a breakthrough treatment.

Students in grades 3 through 12 can submit their ideas for apps related to overcoming the coronavirus by May 29.

The state Department of Public Health plans to test all nursing home patients followed by staff members of those facilities.

Union leaders say not enough is being done to protect staff and juveniles at two of the centers in Bridgeport and Hartford.

The study, part of a project to examine barriers, found emergency department clinicians need training to give buprenorphine to those with opioid use disorder.

DeLaruo, Murphy to fight for funds to help cities, towns under water because of the pandemic. They both won’t let the Postal Service die either.

“I’m thinking about you every day,” Middletown Sen. Matt Lesser told nursing home employees.

There’s been much talk about tests that screen for antibodies against the respiratory illness COVID-19. But what does it mean to have the antibodies?

TORRINGTON — Fourth-grade students at Renbrook School were recently challenged to make adjustments to a social studies project by connecting it to the COVID19 crisis according to an email from the school. Katie Bunel, teacher at Renbrook School explains, “Before we left for our Spring Break …

WEST HARTFORD — The public is invited to attend a series of free online classes this May offered by Witness Stones West Hartford. In the series of four, one-hour classes, you will work with project directors Dr. Tracey Wilson and Liz Devine to remember the lives of enslaved people who lived …

We asked readers what they would like to see reopen first as the state starts planning for getting back to normal. Here’s what they said.

Yale New Haven Health System CEO Marna Borgstrom called the financial losses to the health system “staggering.”