Cellphone-restricting pouches are officially headed for all New Haven middle and high schools, now that alders have approved ...

One man’s trash is another man’s tenant’s loose tires, copper pipes, and splintering wooden cart of debris and furniture.

Ashley HamelState House Square Food CourtHartfordJanuary 9, 2025I’ve got a case of the Winter Blues. That was a good thing.

Miguel Rosado can still remember being a first-grader at Hill Central and marveling at city firefighters as they visited his ...

Andrew Porto takes pride in his daily work keeping preschool classrooms and hallways clean on Goffe Street — before heading across town to coach Wilbur Cross’s softball team. “This job has been great ...

A Brooklyn-based landlord has purchased a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf for $15 million — and plans to convert the property into apartments. The 14-building, 112-room hotel has been owned ...

It’s a great time to be a banana peel in New Haven — as the city has installed three new public composting bins as part of a pilot program to help divert food scraps from the landfill. The ...

New Haven’s jazz scene entered the new year Thursday night in modal, spacey, vegan style, as trumpeter Nick Di Maria and his band lit up The Cannon. Twenty people in The Cannon, an Arsenal pub ...

Want to wear your love for the Elm City on your sleeve? A new T‑shirt design competition is now accepting submissions for apparel that fosters community pride in New Haven. The competition, organized ...

New Haven’s Richard C. Lee High School (1964 – 1986) was an experiment. The roof leaked. The classrooms were windowless. The central library became a Grand Central Station as hundreds of students ...

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How about this New Haven T-shirt slogan?: "We're round and flat." Decorated by New Haven-crafted frisbees, pizzas, hamburgers, clocks, ...