The Latest Breaking News from Connecticut

The Connecticut House of Representatives approved a budget bill that includes provisions to grant certain patients access to MDMA-assisted or psilocybin-assisted therapy, reported Marijuana Moment.

Connecticut Innovations (CI), Connecticut’s strategic venture capital arm, has completed a seven-figure investment in cannabis edibles company 1906. This is a first-of-its-kind investment by a state venture fund in a cannabis business.

Albertsons Companies Inc (NYSE:ACI) and Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE:UBER) have expanded their partnership to include more than 2,000 of the grocer's banner stores nationwide through Uber Eats. Some of the banner stores included are Albertsons, Safeway, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Tom Thumb, and Randalls. The expansion will bring nearly 800 new locations to Uber Eats, including consumers…

A Connecticut state trooper who fatally shot a man following a high-speed chase in 2020 is expected to be arraigned on a manslaughter charge

Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (NYSE:WMS) has acquired Cultec, Inc., a family-owned plastic stormwater and septic chamber company headquartered in Brookfield, Connecticut. Deal terms were not disclosed. "Today, Cultec designs and sells plastic chambers and related products into the stormwater and on-site septic markets. Their products expand ADS' portfolio of solutions, enabling us…

The legislation is partly a reaction to the wave of new measures in conservative states restricting abortions and in some cases levying civil and criminal penalties on people who perform them.

HARTFORD, Conn. — With a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling months away, the state Senate debated emotionally Friday night before approving a key abortion bill that would be the most far-reaching in Connecticut in the past 32 years.

NPR (Dustin Jones) reports on the lawsuit, Steele v. ESPN Productions, Inc. (Conn. Super. Ct.): During Steele's appearance on former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler's podcast, which aired Sept. 29, 2021, Cutler asked why she had a Band-Aid on her armp. She explained that she had just gotten her COVID-19 vaccine…

Dee Giguere from Connecticut is appealing for anyone who may have information about her descendants, who she believes to be from the Ardboe area

The native of Ireland became the best women’s pound-for-pound fighter after moving to sleepy New England.

In 2021, Connecticut passed a law that made possession and consumption of marijuana legal from July 1, 2021, and paved the way for the legal cultivation, processing, distribution and retail of marijuana for adult use.