Canterbury

Eversource officials say while Tropical Storm Henri was less damaging than expected, it will still take a few days to get power back to everyone.

A 60-year-old man was killed in a one-car crash in Canterbury Monday afternoon. Raymond Coughlin, of Canterbury, was driving north on Route 169 around 4 p.m. when he crossed the center line and hit a stone wall on the other side of the street and flipped over, according to state police. Coughlin was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident…

Connecticut State Police have arrested a man who is accused of refusing to wear a mask while at a grocery store in Canterbury earlier this week as cases of coronavirus continue to rise across the state. Troopers received a 911 call from the Better Value grocery store on North Canterbury Road on Sunday around 5:30 p.m. about a man refusing…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said Thursday that even though a vaccine was imminent, Americans needed to double down on public health measures. “We’re not talking about shutting down the country,” he said. “We’re not talking about shutting down. We’re talking about intensifying the simple public health measures that we all talk about, mask...

A 51-year-old Putnam man has died after a crash in Canterbury. State police said Christopher Cournoyer was driving a Harley Davidson motorcycle on Route 14 in Canterbury, around 3:13 p.m. Thursday when he lost control, skidded across the highway and was struck by a Toyota Sienna.    The injuries Cournoyer sustained were fatal, according to state police. The passenger on…

Steven Marshall was working in the garage on a family farm in Canterbury when he was struck by lightning.

At around 4 p.m. on Monday, Steven Marshall of Lisbon was working in the garage on a family farm in Canterbury. Storms moved in and that kept Marshall from leaving the garage. At the moment Marshall went to flip the light switch a lightning strike hit. He was sent to the ground, still conscious but complaining of chest pain and…

Hundreds of acres in eastern Connecticut are in the process of being acquired by the state to expand existing parks and wildlife conservation areas, but thousands more need to be attained or protected in order to meet a fast-approaching goal.

Two 17-year-old girls have died and a third has serious injuries after a car crash and fire in Brooklyn, Connecticut, early Monday morning.

A serious motorcycle crash has closed Route 14 in Canterbury on Friday night.

A 60-year-old Brooklyn, Connecticut woman died after a two-vehicle crash on South Canterbury Road (Route 169) in Canterbury Friday.

Students in Canterbury Public Schools won’t be taking the bus to school on Wednesday due to an administrative issue.

Vandals damaged soccer fields in Canterbury, broke into a storage shed and set soccer equipment on fire, according to investigators. Police are trying to determine who is responsible.

A local woman was seriously injured in a crash on Westminster Road in Canterbury Tuesday.

The mass amounts of gypsy moth caterpillars and drought over the last handful of years have left widespread damage—especially in the eastern part of the state—leaving trees severely compromised or dead.

A Plainfield Little League coach accused of trying to solicit a teen for sexual activity in Rhode Island has pleaded guilty to federal charges.

The death toll in the massacres at two New Zealand mosques rose to 50 on Sunday after police found another victim while removing bodies from the crime scenes, and authorities announced they do not believe three people who had been arrested were involved in the shootings allegedly carried out by a 28-year-old white supremacist. Two of them, both men, are...

A museum honoring Connecticut state heroine Prudence Crandall is holding special public tours as part of Black History Month.

A Plainfield Little League coach accused of trying to solicit a teen for sexual activity in Rhode Island has been re-arrested on federal charges.

Police in Rhode Island have arrested a man from Canterbury, Connecticut, who is accused of trying to solicit a teen to engage in sexual activity at a hotel in Warwick.