A new panel is tasked to finding ways to reduce recycling costs for Connecticut communities and improve recycling efforts.

Concerns are being raised about the lack of approved borrowing for Connecticut transportation projects.

Emergency medical workers say they want a greater voice at the state Capitol after being left out of a key benefits bill.

Connecticut’s largest group of cities and towns says it’s pleased by a new two-year, $43 billion state budget awaiting the governor’s signature.

Steps are being taken on several fronts to help police officers battling mental health issues and post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Cutting back on the amount local governments function as bureaucracy has been considered for years in Connecticut to be an untouchable enterprise.

State lawmakers are considering bills that would consolidate some small and midsize school districts, but not all towns are happy with the idea.

Eighty percent of Connecticut firefighters have had stressful experiences on duty causing lingering or unresolved emotional health issues, according to an exclusive NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters investigation. Eighty percent also said there’s a stigma about getting help, but one state senator has a plan to make it easier.

Gov. Dannel Malloy is holding back funds to state agencies and municipalities to cover an estimated $881.6 million gap built into the newly passed, two-year $41.3 billion budget.

Gov. Dannel Malloy has announced changes in state funding for education in the absence of a state budget, which will result in less funding for 54 school districts and no Education Cost Sharing Funding for 85 towns.

The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities is releasing survey results that may reveal whether the state’s current budget impasse is harming cities and towns.