Connecticut

Opening of a "Big Box" Home Depot store actually helps small home improvement businesses in one Hartford neighborhood.

Reason Magazine looks at one town's struggle to save mom-and-pop porn shops. Are legitimate adult uses a new strategy for community development?

A famous public art installation, endearing to some, an eyesore to others, will be removed after provoking a variety of reactions for 25 years.

A Springsteen concert at the new Rentschler Field, a state-owned stadium in East Hartford, CT, raises questions over the its intended uses.

New director of the oldest public art museum in the country dumps design, puts renovations on hold.

Architects and school officials reach out to the community to participate in the renovation of four public elementary schools in Hartford, CT.

The Brookings Institution's Bruce Katz argues that now is right time for Connecticut to re-evaluate and reform their destructive its wasteful growth trends.

In response to rising concern about sprawl, elected officials in Connecticut propose measures to combat sprawl.

Columnist Tom Condon meditates on the disappearing New England stone wall in the Hartford Courant.

With affluent suburbs and declining cities, can Hartford recover?

Amisdt the nation's wealthiest state, Hartford struggles as one of its worst cities.

Hartford's noise ordinance -- adopted five years ago as a way to keep neighborhood noise levels down is invalid, a court rules.

Several CT towns are charging the State DOT with funding a solution to address the public safety threat caused by a large-scale highway construction project.

Land-use mapping will help determine residents' eligibility for federal noise mitigation aid.

Construction has begun on a cable crossing the Long Island Sound that critics say won't address electicity concerns and will cause grave environmental damage.

Will residents of new London, Connecticut, lose their homes to make way for a new Coast Guard museum?

A neighborhood dispute over the clattering jingles of an ice cream truck is about to become a First Amendment courtroom battle.

After being forced by the State Supreme Court to allow non-residents into its beaches, Greenwich, CT, has constructed a fee system that some contend is still illegal.

To the surprise of no one, non-residents did not utilize their newly won right to pack Greenwich beaches on a brisk April day. Will they pay upwards of $30 a day for the privilage once things heat up?

Stamford works to add to its already abundant supply of luxury downtown housing with another mixed-use development in the works.