Data from the agency’s National Wastewater Surveillance System show a sewershed in Fairfield County registered positive samples for “wild-type” measles.
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Nonprofit CT libraries to discontinue passport application services
Public libraries across the country will stop offering passport application services starting Feb. 13 due to a new federal requirement.
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CT Siting Council rejects United Illuminating’s monopole appeal
Fairfield’s fight against installing tall electrical transmission lines known as monopoles along MetroNorth rail may be over, for now.
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EPA plan would roll back ‘good neighbor’ rule on downwind pollution
The Trump administration took a step toward rolling back a rule limiting smokestack emissions that hit downwind areas in neighboring states.
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Yale to waive costs for undergrads from families earning less than $100K
The Ivy League school announced the change Tuesday and said it will take effect for students entering this fall.
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NYC is testing guaranteed income for homeless youths
An ambitious experiment to give young people money and trust them to spend it well shows promising early signs, participants say.
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Major NY wind project may die if Trump pause lasts past Friday, developer says
Work on Empire Wind has been on hold since the Trump administration “paused” the leases on it and four other projects just days before Christmas.
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Bridgeport Police Dept. drone proposal faces opposition
Members of the city council’s Joint Committee on Contracts and Public Safety and Transportation overwhelmingly voted against the proposal.
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Trump threatens to halt federal money to sanctuary cities and states
The list is overwhelmingly made up of places where the government is controlled by Democrats, including California, Connecticut and New York.
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Hard feelings, litigation in special election for 139th House seat
The special election Tuesday to fill the vacancy left by the death of Rep. Kevin Ryan, D-Montville, is certain to make history.
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Former New Haven police chief stole $10K. Who was keeping track?
The scandal goes back six years. City officials were unable to say whether annual financial reports were filed or who was minding the store.
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CT voters go to polls Tuesday in first of two special elections
Tuesday’s election is one of two this month for vacant seats in the CT House of Representatives, each in districts that favor Democrats.
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US drops the number of vaccines it recommends for every child
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend protection against flu, rotavirus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, some forms of meningitis or RSV.
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Trump admin. moves to cut off transgender care for children
The Connecticut Hospital Association called the action “aggressive” and “alarming” in a statement Thursday. “Patients must come first.”
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Efforts to require Asian American history in K-12 schools begin to pay off
Three years after CT became the third state to require Asian American and Pacific Islander history in K-12 education, a curriculum is launched.