EnCon Police

Environmental conservation police rescued a mother bear and a couple of her cubs that were getting into some mischief at a home in Canton. Officers with EnCon police in the northwest sector responded to the home and safely tranquilized the bears, with some help from the wildlife division. They were then removed from the area and moved to a more…

Police have identified a missing hiker who was found dead at Lovers Leap State Park in New Milford on Sunday. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials said the people the man was hiking with last saw him hiking down from an overlook in the park and he was later found dead in Lake Lillinonah. DEEP officials identified the man…

A missing hiker was found dead at Lovers Leap State Park in New Milford Sunday and Environmental Conservation Police are investigating. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials said the people the man was hiking with last saw him hiking down from an overlook in the park and he was later found dead in Lake Lillinonah. The State Office of…

The search for a missing person at Bluff Point Park in Groton has ended in tragedy. Officials from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said Wednesday that the man they were searching for was found deceased and his death is believed to have been by suicide. DEEP said the man’s friends reported him missing on Friday. His vehicle...

EnCon Police have released the names of the Wesleyan students who were involved in a boating accident on Amston Lake in Hebron over the weekend.

Two Connecticut lawmakers are calling for a bear hunt after a hiker was injured by a black bear in the woods in Southbury on Saturday.

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials are investigating after a hiker was injured by a black bear in the woods on Saturday.

A community is mourning after 18-year-old Nicholas Proto died from an SUV rollover accident at Hammonasset Beach State Park shortly after his graduation from Haddam-Killingworth High School.

A teenager has died after a crash at Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison on Saturday night.

Three classmates accused of burning down the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford entered not guilty pleas in court Tuesday.

Environmental Conservation Police have arrested two teens in connection with vandalism at construction trailers at Milford’s Silver Sands State Park in March.

Investigators now say the fires that damaged two construction trailers at Silver Sands State Park in Milford on Sunday were intentionally set and a reward is being offered for information, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

EnCon Police have arrested three men in connection to illegal deer hunting in Roxbury on Monday.

Police have identified the man who died after a boating accident on Candlewood Lake in Brookfield on Sunday afternoon.

Authorities were called to a home in Barkhamsted Thursday after a bear strolled right on in, according to officials from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is searching for vandals who spray-painted swastikas and other graffiti on trees and the ground at Lake Williams State Park Scenic Reserve in Lebanon.

State Environmental Conservation police have arrested a man accused of illegal hunting in a Meriden park, and are looking for several other people believed to have hunted illegally in the area.

The body of a 33-year-old man was pulled from the water at Millers Pond State Park in Durham on Saturday.