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Gov. Ned Lamont put down a marker with more than 40,000 unionized state employees this week, reaching an “understanding” to extend valuable retirement benefits for at least one year in the next gubernatorial term.

With a pair of new laws intended to protect residents’ privacy and information from the use of artificial intelligence, Attorney General William Tong addressed the major provisions of two related bills going into effect Oct. 1.

The returns mark the fourth consecutive year pension investments have eclipsed the state’s 6.9% target.

Legislative Republicans made their plea for voters to elect more members of their party in November, offering reductions or outright elimination of about a half-dozen taxes or fees in return.

Nancy S. Wyman, a prescient voice of caution about Connecticut’s unfunded pension liability as state comptroller, then the lieutenant governor who gave Democrats a crucial tie-breaking vote as the presiding officer in an evenly divided state Senate, died Wednesday. She was 80.

Accolades are pouring in for Connecticut’s first elected female comptroller and 108th lieutenant governor, Nancy Wyman. Wyman died early Wednesday, according to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office. She was 80.

Gov. Ned Lamont defeated liberal challenger Josh Elliott in a primary Tuesday that tested Democrats’ allegiance to a more moderate incumbent, who guided Connecticut through a pandemic and presided over an unprecedented string of budget surpluses and a major tax cut.

Sen. Doug McCrory, a veteran Democratic lawmaker of more than two decades, lost a bid to hold onto his state Senate seat representing Hartford, Bloomfield and Windsor in one of the state’s most closely watched legislative primaries on Tuesday night.

Luke Bronin, the former mayor of Hartford who campaigned on the need for new voices in Congress, soundly defeated long-time incumbent U.S. Rep. John Larson in the Democratic primary on Tuesday, all but guaranteeing Bronin the seat.

Connecticut’s minimum wage is set to increase by more than 50 cents next year as state residents contend with rising costs for life’s necessities.

With early voting underway in the 2026 Democratic gubernatorial primary, Connecticut voters say affordability is the single most important issue to them, according to a Sacred Heart University/WFSB/CT Insider Poll. The poll also showed two-term incumbent Gov. Ned Lamont leading state Rep. Josh Elliott of Hamden, his primary challenger.

On the gubernatorial debate stage in New Haven on Wednesday night, Hamden State Rep. Josh Elliott accused two-term incumbent Gov. Ned Lamont of being “too afraid of the federal government” and of not doing enough to keep immigration enforcement agents out of Connecticut.

Connecticut has enacted significant amendments to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), expanding its scope and introducing new compliance obligations for businesses that collect, use, share, or sell personal information. Now, many businesses, including employers that may not think of themselves as “data companies,” could have new compliance obligations.

With Connecticut’s automatic renewal law in effect as of July 1, consumers have new rights regarding automatically renewing subscriptions or memberships. These amendments to Connecticut’s existing “click to cancel” statute require covered businesses to provide annual renewal reminders, expand consumers’ cancelation options, and promptly honor cancelation requests, Attorney General William Tong said Thursday at a media briefing in Hartford.

‘We’re always going to have that human oversight,’ Gov. Ned Lamont pledged.

Study panel aims to wrap work by late September.

Beginning this month, new commercial solar facilities will be subject to a uniform tax of $10,000 per megawatt per year.

Hartford officials are seeking to delay the city’s next property revaluation by one year, in a move Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has said would help protect homeowners from a larger share of the tax burden as residential property values rise while commercial office values continue to decline.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said he was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the death if U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died suddenly over the weekend at age 71.

What is believed to be the country’s first statewide citizens assembly got underway Saturday as more than 100 randomly selected state residents gathered in New Haven to learn about the state’s property tax system. Participants in the Connecticut Citizens Assembly on Property Taxes will attend 12 daylong sessions this summer and will be tasked with proposing changes to the system.