Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant holds the title of the largest daily newspaper in Connecticut and is often regarded as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. This morning publication primarily serves the areas north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, with its headquarters located on Broad Street, just a short distance from the state capitol. The paper covers regional news through a network of bureaus in smaller cities and offers various local editions. In 2000, it became part of the Tribune Company, which later merged its management and facilities with WTIC-TV, also owned by Tribune, in Hartford. In 2014, the newspaper was separated from the Tribune Company and became a part of Tribune Publishing.

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Walmart recalls: Kid’s ATVs missing safety features, adjustable dumbbells that fall apart

1 day ago | courant.com | Justine Lofton

By Justine Lofton, mlive.comThis week’s recalls at America’s largest retailer include children’s ATVs that are lacking safety features and adjustable dumbbells that can unfasten and drop weights while in use. With thousands of products on shelves and available online, Walmart serves millions of Americans; 90% of the U.S. population lives within 10 miles of a Walmart store. When a product it sells is recalled, there can be widespread effects.
PHOTOS: House of Heroes Connecticut aids Vietnam era vet

1 day ago | courant.com | Aaron Flaum

Todd Stark from TRIUMPH Systems, Electronics & Controls, cleans loose cement from the front steps at U.S. Army veteran Francis Berman’s home in West Hartford, on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Volunteers from TRIUMPH partnered with House of Heroes Connecticut to clean the property. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)Jim Wyskiesicz of TRIUMPH Systems, Electronics & Controls digs around a stump at U.S. Army veteran Francis Berman’s home in West Hartford, on Thursday, June 5, 2025.
A CT pizza expert is teaching new way to make our favorite pies. Easy and inexpensive, he says

2 days ago | courant.com | Pamela McLoughlin

Pizza expert Frank Zabski teaches students at his Pizza School using a wood-fired pizza oven, but there’s another tasty, inexpensive way to make it in your own backyard. Using a gas or charcoal grill is one of the most simple, cost-effective and yummy ways to cook homemade or even premade pizza, Zabski said. “My kids love pizza in the grill over anything else I make,” Zabski said, of his young adult children. “It has a certain texture if done correctly.
Hand stops Avon’s streak, wins first Class M boy tennis title since 2018; Suffield S champs

2 days ago | courant.com | Lori Riley

WEST HARTFORD — The last four years, the Avon High boys tennis team has won the Class M state title. But Avon’s No. 1 singles player, Liam Hovorka, graduated, along with some other seniors, and it would be harder for the younger Falcons to keep the streak alive. Liam’s younger brother, Ryan, now a senior, moved into the No. 1 spot and Avon moved up a group of players up who had played junior varsity.
UConn men’s basketball schedules home-and-home series with blue-blood Kansas

2 days ago | courant.com | Joe Arruda

There is little concern in Storrs over the open New York Knicks head coaching job, and whether UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley might be considered to fill it. There is certainly no concern over the quality of the Huskies’ 2025-26 schedule, which added yet another high-profile piece on Wednesday, or its roster, which seems to have an ideal modern mix of returning stars and new faces.
Area 51 movie to follow Las Vegas newsman, alien theories

2 days ago | courant.com | John Katsilometes

By John Katsilometes, Las Vegas Review-JournalLAS VEGAS — George Knapp’s reporting career has been out of this world. And now, so is his film career. A respected and celebrated Las Vegas newsman dating to the 1980s, Knapp is to be portrayed in a feature film involving Area 51. An institution at KLAS Channel 8, Knapp was the first journalist to delve into the highly classified U.S. Air Force facility inside the Nevada Test Site (now the Nevada National Security Site).
Mark Hamill starred in the ultimate battle of good and evil. Now he just wants to make America normal again

2 days ago | courant.com | Josh Rottenberg

By Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — Mark Hamill was at a point in his life where he felt ready to trade the Force for a pool float and a quiet crossword in the shade. After five decades as the face of one of pop culture’s most enduring myths — Luke Skywalker, the wide-eyed Tatooine farm boy-turned-Jedi knight in “Star Wars” — Hamill had found a comfortable corner of the galaxy to call his own.
New hotel opening in renovated CT historic building. It boasts ‘panoramic views’ of popular waterway

3 days ago | courant.com | Pamela McLoughlin

The Whaler’s Inn family has added a new Connecticut hotel. It’s in downtown Mystic, and it’s a new, upscale hotel of 10 luxury suites “that pay tribute to downtown Mystic and the great Mystic area,” and an event space on the first floor, hotel President Amanda Airling said. The newly renovated 100-year-old building, The Stanton House, is a sixth building in the Whaler’s Inn collection and offers panoramic views of the Mystic River and the iconic Bascule Bridge, Airling said.
CT doctor warns of danger in heat and humidity. State to see very hot days.

3 days ago | courant.com | Pamela McLoughlin

Illness from heat and humidity is a real thing. With those weather conditions forecast in the next few days in Connecticut and sure to resurface as summer approaches, a doctor with Yale New Haven Health has offered tips to prevent illnesses such heat exhaustion and heat stroke that can land people in the Emergency Department. Accuweather predicts a high of 87 in parts of Connecticut Wednesday, June 4, with haziness, and then a high of 91 on June 5, with added humidity.
PHOTOS: Connecticut in May

3 days ago | courant.com | Aaron Flaum

Workers from AJP Restoration & Remodeling power-wash the exterior of Saint Sebastian Roman Catholic Church in Middletown on Friday, May 30, 2025. The crew is cleaning and restoring the building. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)Beckett Moon, 4, of Bolton, tries out a Manchester Public Works wheel loader during a Touch-a-Truck event at the Whiton Branch Library in Manchester on Monday, May 19, 2025.