A 19-year-old New Havener has been arrested for the Fair Haven shooting death of 29-year-old city resident Shaquille Chazz Pearson.

The Board of Education approved a $150,000 increase for one of its legal services contractors, bringing the total allocation to $400,000 for a firm ...

Four dozen people filled City Hall on Thursday night to protest a city policy of issuing 72-hour eviction notices upon ...

Mayoral candidates can now raise less money from individual contributors, and put a lot less of their own money into ...

Teen domestic violence, more mental health days, and the school-to-prison pipeline are just some of topics on the minds of ...

I’ve got a case of the Winter Blues. That was a good thing. The Winter Blues is a free, twice-weekly live music series taking place on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12 – 1 p.m. inside the State House ...

(Opinion) How about this New Haven T‑shirt slogan?: “We’re round and flat.” Decorated with New Haven-crafted frisbees, pizzas, burgers, clocks, and lollipops? My hunch is that we may see snappier, ...

A Democratic mayor swore in a Republican election official with calls for bispartisan cooperation as GOP members cheered them on. Yes, that really happened. Wednesday evening. In New Haven. When Mayor ...

Cellphone-restricting pouches are officially headed for all New Haven middle and high schools, now that alders have approved a nearly $371,000 contract with the tech-securing company Yondr. At a full ...

A state judge approved the no-fault eviction of an Edgewood family after cautioning both landlord and tenant about the quicksand-like perils of oral, rather than written, leases. State Superior Court ...

Miguel Rosado can still remember being a first-grader at Hill Central and marveling at city firefighters as they visited his school for “Fire Prevention Month” to show off a fire engine, climb a ...

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