Fire reports for Newtown, Conn. for the period of February 14-20, 2019.

Area nonprofit groups are hoping to hear from regular supporters and new fans when Fairfield County’s Community Foundation presents its sixth annual online Day of Giving.

Ahead of a winter storm moving toward Newtown and the region, events and programs scheduled for this afternoon and evening are being cancelled or postponed. A National Weather Service Winter Weather Advisory covering Fairfield County, among other areas, will be in effect from 2 this afternoon until 6 am Thursday, February 21.

Eversource has announced helicopter flyovers will take place through Tuesday, February 26.

In response to a change in state law, the Police Commission has revised a town police policy concerning how certain domestic violence calls are handled.

The Police Commission has modified the Newtown Police Department’s policy on police obtaining permission to conduct motor vehicle searches.

Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) members on February 7 unanimously approved a project known as Mitchell's Hawleyville Station for a site at 26 Hawleyville Road (State Route 25).

There was a time long ago when people widely considered areas with saturated soils, such as swamps, marshes, bogs, and fens, collectively known as wetlands, to be wastelands, places where encroachment simply happened and dumping was okay.

Inland Wetlands Commission (IWC) members are continuing their review of a now-modified proposal to construct in Hawleyville what would be the largest industrial/office complex ever built locally.