A view of the wastewater treatment tanks at the waste facility on Richard White Way in Fairfield. Credit: Ryan Caron King / Connecticut Public CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on ...

A Florida man stranded his sailboat on a Sea Girt beach on September 20. The sailor, Lawrence Kaehler, mistook a beacon for an inlet during rough seas, causing him to run aground. Local residents have ...

October marks 13 years since Superstorm Sandy ravaged Connecticut. The town of Fairfield is now reflecting on how the storm and the damage it caused shaped the town’s storm preparedness strategies. In ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today issued a scathing statement refuting a series of claims made by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker regarding Operation Midway Blitz, a federal immigration ...

For decades, residents of a neighborhood that straddles the border of Brooklyn and Queens have dealt with the unique effects of living in a basin: swampy flooding, bumpy streets, overgrown lots strewn ...

CHICAGO — Federal authorities opened fire on a woman who was allegedly armed with a gun shortly after their vehicle was rammed and blocked in by a group of cars on the Southwest Side on Saturday ...

The Atlantic hurricane season typically undergoes some important changes in October that affect not only how many storms form, but where they're more likely to strike. A drop in the number of storms: ...

The first of 175 40-foot new Flyer buses ordered by NJ Transit arrived on Monday. NJ Transit President & CEO Kris Kolluri says the agency will replace or modernize every outdated bus and rail car by ...

WEST BARNSTABLE — A crunch of shovels against sand. After years of crossed fingers, whispered prayers for storms to be kind, and careful planning, that's how the effort to protect Barnstable's only ...

A $6.6 million project is underway to protect Sandy Neck Beach Park in Barnstable from erosion and storm damage. The plan involves relocating a flood-prone parking lot, restoring dunes, and upgrading ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's treatment of ...