PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has a message for Super Bowl fans this year: Enjoy the game, but when it comes to parties, wait until next year.

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Federal lawmakers from Connecticut demanded answers Friday from the warden of the federal prison in Danbury after they say they learned first responders were denied access...

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, chairwoman of the House Commerce Subcommittee, is backing the College Athlete Bill of Rights crafted by a group of Democratic senators.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — National Weather Service teams were assessing damage in Connecticut and upstate New York on Friday to see if tornadoes touched down during powerful storms that caused power...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut regulators heard calls Monday to break up the state's largest electric utility in the wake of large rate increases and lengthy delays in restoring power...

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut regulators are set to hold a hearing to review a recent Eversource electricity rate increase that caught many customers by surprise.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill that would give Congress the power to dissolve the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee's board of directors and would more than double the federation's funding for the...

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Politicians called for action to make workplaces safer as they gathered Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of a deadly explosion at a Connecticut natural gas plant....

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials on Friday called on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to immediately improve its oversight of a federal voucher program for...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Friday he hopes his Republican Senate colleagues will “share the sense of solemnity” about the presidential impeachment...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials are visiting a Jewish community center to talk about security, following the stabbing of five people celebrating Hanukkah at a rabbi's home north of...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut is expected to receive additional federal funding to help law enforcement and domestic violence groups around the state, which had at least 13 intimate partner...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Major League Baseball said Saturday it is committed to protecting minor league teams, a day after U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal warned of possible congressional action if the...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal has become the latest Connecticut official to urge Major League Baseball to save the minor league team in Norwich, warning congressional action...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut is expected to receive roughly $5 million in additional federal grant funds to help protect the state's voting system.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong have planned a public summit on the problem of robocalls.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing legislation aimed at what he describes as “cyber Grinches.”

The Connecticut Democrat said the goal of the bill — which he...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Linda Orange, a veteran eastern Connecticut legislator, has died less than two weeks after stepping down for health reasons. She was 69.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Environmental officials are announcing $2.6 million in grants for Long Island Sound conservation efforts.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that...

DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — Supporters including U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal have gathered for a rally in Darien on behalf of a Connecticut man charged with killing a hotel worker while on vacation in...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he and fellow lawmakers want to impose criminal penalties against those who threaten or attack journalists doing their...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Members of Connecticut's congressional delegation are going to Bridgeport to announce the award of a new federal grant to combat youth homelessness.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he's leading a group of a dozen senators in urging the federal government to do more to prevent young people from vaping.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The majority of Connecticut's all-Democratic congressional delegation by Tuesday afternoon had called for a House select committee to begin an impeachment inquiry of...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Top political leaders in Connecticut are set to receive an update on election security.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pressing National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell to take incidents of domestic violence and sexual assault among players...

NEW YORK (AP) — Three U.S. senators are pushing Amazon to remove unsafe products from its online store, spurred by a Wall Street Journal investigation that found that more than 4,000 products on...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A plan to stop holding federal detention hearings in Connecticut's only immigration court is raising concerns among political leaders and immigrant rights advocates, who say...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says a draft of proposed, bipartisan federal legislation he's working on with Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham that would encourage states to...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he's hoping to pressure the Republican-led Senate to pass election security legislation before the 2020 election.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Senators from Rhode Island and Connecticut are part of a group of Democrats visiting border detention facilities in Texas.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says proposed health insurance rate increases in Connecticut are unaffordable.

The Connecticut Democrat says the rates released by the...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Representatives from various state agencies have been tasked with studying a group of potentially dangerous industrial compounds, dubbed "forever chemicals," and...

BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley is working with other Democratic members of Congress to push legislation aimed at making it easier and less expensive to obtain birth control...