eastern Connecticut

The Eastern Regional Tourism District (ERTD) is providing matching funds to support tourism in eastern Connecticut. The program is designed to help towns, venues or organizations with marketing. The ERTD created the program last year and was able to help 12 organizations boost tourism marketing. “Now that we are emerging from the pandemic, we are grateful to be able to…

With more people beginning to travel as we emerge from the pandemic, cities and towns in eastern Connecticut hope to get the message out that they are the perfect tourism destination.

Eastern Connecticut hospitals will be reinstating the visitor restrictions they had in place because of a recent COVID-19 outbreak in the community. Eastern Connecticut, Backus, Windham, and Natchaug hospitals will be impacted by the visitor restrictions, according to Hartford Healthcare. The restrictions come after a COVID-19 alert was issued for Norwich by the Department of Public Health. Norwich has seen…

As the city deals with a COVID-19 outbreak, Norwich officials are encouraging residents to get tested to help limit the spread of the disease.

There is a big development for homeowners who got state help to fix their crumbling basements. Congressman Joe Courtney has received guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that financial help homeowners received from the state to help replace their basements will not be taxable income. The exception:  if a homeowner claimed a property casualty loss for the basement...

A man is dead after exchanging gunfire with police after trying to carjack several cars and leading police on a chase that spanned from Norwich to Windham on Wednesday afternoon.

A man who authorities say led a heroin selling ring linked to overdoses in eastern Connecticut is expected to be sentenced to five years in prison.

NBC Connecticut First Alert meteorologists are tracking a large storm developing to our south as it moves northeast.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as the DACA act.

A strong storm moved through Connecticut overnight, bringing high winds and heavy rain, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers statewide. Thousands remained in the dark as of Friday night.

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.

Mosquitoes in another Connecticut community have tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis.

Mosquitoes in two more Connecticut communities have tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis.

Many schools across Connecticut have made the decision to adjust sports schedules due to EEE concerns.

A third person has died of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in Connecticut this season, officials from the Connecticut Agriculture Station said Tuesday.

A Superior Court judge has given the eastern Connecticut town of Lebanon ownership of its mile-long green.

The Connecticut Bond Commission has agreed to release the next $20 million in funding to assist people in north central and eastern Connecticut with defective concrete basements.

The rise of opioid-related deaths is leading to a new partnership in Vernon.

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Three eastern Connecticut Rivers that will now be tested for PFAS, the same potentially dangerous chemical that went into the Farmington River earlier this summer after a firefighting foam spill at Bradley International Airport.