Long Island Sound

A 70-foot yacht caught fire and sunk in Long Island Sound off Branford last week and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is warning boaters to avoid the area where the vessel sunk until it is removed, which is expected to happen this week. Officials from DEEP said the vessel is hazardous to navigation. Firefighters responded to a…

Norm Bloom enjoys watching his 5-year-old grandson, Jack, out on one of their oyster boats dressed in his little waders, helping the crew as they pull in dredge cages full of the shellfish from the bottom of Norwalk Harbor. “He’d be out there on deck all day every day if he could,” Bloom said, during a recent harvesting trip...

A 70-foot yacht caught fire in Long Island Sound Thursday afternoon and eight people were rescued before the vessel sank, according to the Branford Fire Department.   Firefighters responded to a call that came in at 1:19 p.m. reporting a yacht was on fire and people were in the water. Crews from Branford River, Stony Creek, the United States Coast...

Westbrook emergency crews have responded to a call for an overturned boat in Long Island Sound, according to dispatchers. The boat was reported to be in the area of Six Mile Reef, off the coast of Clinton. The Old Saybrook Fire Department posted a short video on Facebook of its rescue boat responding to an overturned boat as well. There…

The federal government is auctioning off the Penfield Reef Lighthouse, but living in the lighthouse does have a few requirements.

A Connecticut fishing captain is sharing his once-in-a-lifetime sighting—he saw several whales on the Long Island Sound. When Captain Joe Diorio set out from Old Lyme Wednesday on a fishing charter, a whale was the last thing he expected to see… until it happened. “Basically I just see this huge whale come right out of the water. I was like...

A Connecticut fishing captain spotted several whales of the coast in the Long Island Sound.

The state Dept. of Public Health is warning residents on the Connecticut shoreline about an illness caused by bacteria in salt or brackish water on Saturday.

A 22-year-old Danbury man has died after the kayak he and his wife were in capsized in Long Island Sound in Stamford Sunday afternoon. Crews said they responded to a report of someone in a kayak in trouble around noon. A woman was found approximately 20 feet from the rocks in the area of 160 Wallace Ave., according to fire…

The Connecticut Audubon Society is calling for a ban on harvesting horseshoe crabs in Connecticut.