According to the latest update from town officials, residents are regaining their electrical supplies and roads continue to reopen following the strong rain and wind storm that moved through the regio...

Newtown Public Schools will be closed Monday, October 30, due to road closures. The announcement was made early Monday morning.

This story has been updated to include rainfall totals as of 10 pm Sunday and peak wind gusts, as supplied by the WCSU Weather Center. * * * * * A rain system that stalled over the region on Sund...

Even with the cessation of rain and lessening of winds, more Eversource customers in Newtown were without power and more of the town's roads were partially or totally blocked with downed wires or tree...

After the C.H. Booth Library's most recent director, Karen Tatarka, left in July of this year to return to her role as director of the Weston Public Library, Newtown has been faced again with the task...

The Legislative Council is calling on any resident who may want to comment on two proposed ordinances to attend a public hearing ahead of the panel's next regular meeting Wednesday, November 1.The New...

The Newtown Public School PTAs and PTSA hosted candidates for the Board of Education at an informational forum in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall on October 23 that had the candidates answer ques...

WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) led 28 senators, including U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), on Wednesday, Octo...

NEW HAVEN- A federal grand jury has returned an indictment, charging John J. McCarthy, 63, of Newtown with one count of armed bank robbery in connection with an August incident in Newtown, Deirdre M. ...