Investigations

You’d think our state’s crumbling concrete crisis would be uncommon. But it, in fact, appears to be even worse in some other countries. That’s why a Connecticut woman who has confronted this issue here went overseas to Ireland to share what our state has done to make homeowners whole again. Debbie MacCoy has advocated for hundreds in Connecticut de...

A new report suggests the crumbling concrete problem in our state will not be a big issue for most larger buildings. The company that funds repairs for hundreds of residential property owners with crumbling basements conducted a survey of 100 public use buildings in Northeast Connecticut – the area hardest hit by the concrete crisis. In all, ...

Connecticut has pledged to make law enforcement more transparent. NBC Connecticut Investigates put that to the test, seeing what it takes to get the documents and background material associated with three incidents this summer involving state troopers. On July 24, a young woman in Brookfield reported to Connecticut State Police she got rear ended t...

Driving high equals a DUI. That’s the message the Connecticut Department of Transportation has been driving home since the state legalized adult-use cannabis in 2021. Connecticut has one of the highest rates of drunken driving fatalities in the country. But confirming a driver is impaired by cannabis is more complicated than determining alcohol imp...

With six weeks left in the year, Hartford has already hit a grim milestone: 36 homicides so far in 2022. The only time the city had 30 or more homicides was in 2003 and 2015. “She was fun, liked to laugh. Everybody knew her,” Diazsha Heaven said, describing her sister Jayla. “Yeah, she was just full of energy.” She was…