road safety Mar 14

Reckless on Our Roads: School bus drivers seen violating the law

During our eight month “Reckless on Our Roads” exclusive investigation, we saw school buses and vans exceeding the speed limit, rolling through stoplights and stop signs, and making questionable lane ...

  • Connecticut State Police Jan 30

    Exclusive: State police lieutenants claim promotional exam stacked against them

    Connecticut State Police regularly hold assessments for troopers who want to get promoted to positions including sergeant, lieutenant, captain and major. Last February, nine troopers passed a captain’s assessment. Seven were promoted.  Two were not, getting the lowest passing grades despite 44 years of experience between them. Lieutenant Adam ...
  • Norfolk Jan 10

    Case closed on Eversource downed wires incident, state regulators say

    For the second time, state regulators are disciplining Connecticut’s largest electric company in connection with an incident NBC Connecticut Investigates brought to light a year ago. It involved a situation on Jan. 17, 2023 where an elderly couple in Norfolk had to wait roughly an hour after wires went down on their car on a major road, in the midd...
  • Bloomfield Jan 3

    Bloomfield school superintendent's retirement agreement scrutinized

    There are new details about a move by Bloomfield’s Board of Education to consider the termination of its superintendent of schools. NBC Connecticut Investigates has obtained documents that indicate superintendent James Thompson signed an agreement in May that laid out a retirement plan, that some town leaders say they should have signed off on. Tow...
  • Crumbling Foundation Jan 3

    Courtney secures federal ‘gap' funding for crumbling foundation repairs

    Congressman Joe Courtney has obtained federal funding that will help with a persistent problem when it comes to repairing hundreds of crumbling concrete basements in our state. Homeowners getting their basements lifted and replaced have all or most of that cost covered by a state program – up to $155,000 for a freestanding house. However, tha...
  • rate hikes Dec 29, 2023

    Regulators give utility a hard ‘no' on interim rate hike

    Electric rates for a large swath of Connecticut consumers will not go up any further, at least in the short term. Regulators said United Illuminating will not receive a proposed interim rate increase of about 2%. This would be on top of the 2% rate increase regulators granted the shoreline utility in August. At that time, UI was asking for…...
  • fantasy football Dec 29, 2023

    Connecticut has a fantasy football obsession, new study shows

    Late in the year has always been an exciting time for football fans between the Rose Bowl and the upcoming NFL playoffs. And don’t forget fantasy football players – fans who manage virtual teams that compete based on statistics. Believe it or not, Connecticut is one of the most fantasy football-obsessed states in the country, according to a n...
  • nbc ct investigates Dec 27, 2023

    Competing solution for mini-liquor bottle problem?

    Mini-liquor bottles, also known as “nips;” you have seen them everywhere, sometimes on the ground in the form of litter. The liquor industry and state leaders have taken steps to address this, but one group says it’s not working; advocating for towns to have the right to ban their sale. It didn’t take long to find mini-liquor bottles, o...
  • killingworth Dec 14, 2023

    Unspecified number of preschoolers abused at shoreline daycare: state records

    NBC Connecticut Investigates has exclusive new information about a months-long investigation into the abuse of preschoolers at a shoreline daycare. Our investigative team obtained new documents in connection with the case at the Killingworth Kid’s Center that was initiated in June. Back then, one of the children going there told a parent that a sta...
  • real estate Dec 1, 2023

    Homeownership trends: New data shows areas of concerns in CT

    Owning a home is the gateway to the middle class and the traditional path to building wealth and passing it along to one’s children. NBC Connecticut Investigates wanted a better idea of home ownership trends and crunched some recently released census figures. For starters, overall home ownership in Connecticut went down in the decade between the 20...
  • Connecticut Nov 30, 2023

    CT gas companies fined for safety, recordkeeping violations

    One million dollars’ worth of fines have been handed down to three Connecticut natural gas companies from state utility regulators. The fines are for safety and recordkeeping violations in 2020 through 2022, according to notices sent by PURA, also known as the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority. Two companies owned by Avangrid, which also owns U...
  • fentanyl Nov 20, 2023

    State leaders want to inform fentanyl users about safe use

    As much as illegal drug use has been discouraged in Connecticut, efforts have been made to make sure those who do use, do it as safely as possible. That has been especially true when it comes to fentanyl, which the state said caused 86% of all fatal overdoses in Connecticut in 2022. Initiatives to better prevent, treat and understand, potential&#82...
  • driving safety Nov 17, 2023

    Reckless on our roads

    How many times have you come home from work frustrated about getting cut off, tailgated or worse … and you didn’t have the video to prove it? Don’t worry. We believe you. NBC Connecticut Investigates spent six months on the road with cameras, capturing those scary moments. We asked what you can do to stay safer. During our six-month hidden......
  • Nov 15, 2023

    Heated exchange takes place at Connecticut Airport Authority meeting

    A squabble that broke out between the Connecticut Airport Authority and Tweed Airport in New Haven in October generated some brief fireworks at the CAA’s November board meeting. Last month, CAA Executive Director Kevin Dillon told Tweed Airport in a letter that it would take action if Tweed did not get its airport license renewed by CAA. That gener...
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