Mark Boughton

The Danbury City Council voted to rename the city’s sewer plant after John Oliver, according to Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton. Oliver previously vowed to donate $55,000 to charity if officials followed through on the joke to rename its sewage treatment plant after him. The back and forth between the two started when Oliver took some shots at Boughton on his…

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton is urging residents to take COVID-19 precautions seriously after a recent spike in cases in the city.

“Well, we had the first case in the state and now we have the first surge in the state,” said Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, after a day jam-packed with free testing in his city for residents with or without symptoms. Boughton said he, along with other city and state officials, are urging people to social distance, wear masks, wash your…

The Connecticut Department of Public Health has declared a COVID-19 alert for the city of Danbury following a recent spike in coronavirus cases. The city reported 44 new coronavirus cases since Thursday, according to Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton. Between August 2 and 20, Danbury recorded at least 178 new COVID-19 cases, according to the DPH. The CT DPH said the…

President Trump is taking heat for telling an interviewer that the rising death toll from COVID-19 “is what it is,” in an interview with Axios on HBO. “They are dying, that’s true. And it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can,” he says.

A pilot walked away with only minor injuries after a glider crashed into a home in Danbury Tuesday, going through the roof and causing damage to the building.

Across Connecticut, more and more groups are coming forward to offer assistance to federal workers going without pay during the government shutdown.

More banks across Connecticut are offering no-interest loans to provide short-term financial help to workers going without pay during the partial shutdown of the federal government.

Health officials are investigating a possible food-borne illness outbreak that may be tied to a Danbury restaurant.

Connecticut’s program that provides money to candidates running for state offices from the legislature all the way up to governor saw a record year.

Two weeks after his latest defeat in an attempt to become Connecticut’s next governor, Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton says the state and his own party need to rethink some of the critical stages and parts of the primary and endorsement process.

More voters turned out to vote on Tuesday than they did in the similar open governor’s race primary in 2010.

Bob Stefanowski, the former UBS, GE, and payday loan company executive emerged from a crowded field of Republicans to lock up the party’s nomination last night.

Bob Stefanowski is the presumptive GOP nomination for Connecticut governor over a large field of opponents.

The polls have closed in Connecticut and the results have started to come in.

Tuesday is the most significant political day on the calendar up until the General Election on November 8. Registered Democrats and Republicans will each cast ballots for the candidates they want to represent them in the General Election. On both sides, and in races up and down the ballot there are very competitive contests, which, in some cases were completely unexpected.

Stefanowski boasts an internal poll that he says showed him with a 15 point lead on the field, which is why, says Stemerman, one of the GOP challengers paid for attack ads against him at such an early stage.

All five Republican candidates for Connecticut governor are trying to break out from the large pack and differentiate themselves for voters, with the primary just three weeks away.

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton is leading the five-way GOP primary for governor with just three weeks to go, according to a single question online poll conducted by Tremont Public Advisors, a Hartford and Washington DC lobbying and consulting firm.

A pair of protesters tried their best to keep their handwritten posters that criticized former Trumbull First Selectman Tim Herbst visible during a press conference Monday morning.