Towns like South Windsor, Windsor, Killingworth, Ledyard, Milford and Newtown have ended or suspended use of license plate readers in 2026.
Cities & Towns
Connecticut has 169 cities and towns. Keep up with their neighborhoods, their municipal governments and regionalization efforts here.
Posted inCharting Connecticut, Cities & Towns
Which CT towns are the most walkable?
Compared to other cities and towns around the U.S., several CT municipalities were more walkable than most, according to 2025 data.
Posted inCrossing Connecticut
Where exactly is Canaan, Conn.? There are at least two answers
North Canaan and Canaan, towns stacked just below the Massachusetts border, are used to being mixed up. But the names create real problems.
Posted inCities & Towns
CT towns are installing license plate reading cameras on school buses
More than half a dozen towns have contracted with BusPatrol to record any motorist passing a bus that’s displaying flashing red signal lights.
Posted inCities & Towns
Controversial Flock cameras are found across CT. What to know.
The cameras capture information from every passing vehicle, raising questions and concerns about privacy and surveillance in CT towns.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
A Roxbury couple welcomed hikers, for a fee. The town said, ‘No.’
The couple threatened legal action against Roxbury after being told zoning rules prohibit them from opening their 50-acre property to hikers.
Posted inMoney
How do CT municipalities adopt, pay for their budgets?
While CT funds its budget off a mix of taxes, including income, sales, business and more – towns get most of their money from property taxes.
Posted inCities & Towns
House passes bill that would end key revenue source for print news — legal notices
H.B. 5289 would eliminate the requirement that municipalities publish legal notices in print, requiring instead that they be posted online.
Posted inPartner Content
Ansonia paying for nonexistent fuel cells
The town’s taxpayers are on the hook for a $63.6M fuel cell project even though the deal imploded late last year.
Posted inPartner Content
Yale ups annual payments to New Haven by $5 million
That voluntary-payment bump is part of a new town-gown deal announced by Mayor Justin Elicker and Yale President Maurie McInnis Friday.
Posted inPartner Content
CT towns grapple with whether to dump snow in rivers and lakes
Nearly a dozen Connecticut towns are notifying state environmental officials that they may need to dump tons of snow into nearby rivers and lakes.
Posted inJustice
Proposed juvenile facility in Tolland rankles locals, legislators
State lawmakers and Tolland officials say they were blindsided by a plan to open a new juvenile detention facility in the town.
Posted inPartner Content
Ex-Norwich mayor sought pension buyback weeks before leaving office
The Personnel and Pension Board will consider a request from the longtime mayor to participate in a pension plan for city employees, elected officials.
Posted inCities & Towns
CT Mirror’s new community engagement reporting: The year in review
In 2025, we hired community engagement reporters in Bridgeport and Hartford who immediately went to work getting to know their communities.
Posted inPolitics
In CT, finding candidates to run for local office is getting harder
Hostile online politics and waning civic engagement — plus the substantial time commitment — have discouraged people from seeking office.