A former Bridgeport fire official has died and police are conducting an untimely death investigation. The police department said Harold Clarke Sr. was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning, but he didn’t show up.

Tony Barr was charged with assaulting emergency medical personnel, interfering with an officer and traveling too fast for conditions after a crash, police say.

A man who was shot in Bridgeport on Saturday has died, marking the city’s first homicide of 2025. Officers were called to the 200 block of Lake Street around 4:30 p.m. Saturday for a report of a person shot.

On Friday, the National Water Main Cleaning Company admitted to knowingly discharging a pollutant into Cuff Brook while working in Cheshire in July 2019.

The city of Bridgeport is hoping to get people buzzing about conservation this year. On Jan. 9, Bridgeport Mayor Joe Gamin announced in a news release that the city has become an affiliate of Bee City USA,

State Democratic Party leaders have told their Bridgeport counterparts to replace the treasurer because she lives out of town.

Arriving officers located a male victim at the front of a residence on Hewitt Street suffering from a gunshot wound to the torso.

Bridgeport city councilman Alfredo Castillo was referred to state prosecutors on Tuesday for potential criminal charges related to allegedly registering a non U.S. citizen to vote in the city’s 2023 Democratic primary and filling out an absentee ballot in that person’s name.

A program to help new moms and babies ease from hospital to home, a joint effort between Bridgeport Hospital and the state, is reaching the end of its first,

Connecticut State Police said a pedestrian was fatally struck on 1-95 on Wednesday. According to state police officials, a pedestrian, later identified as Suniel Michael Ross of Woonsocket, had ran across the three lanes on I-95 south and jumped over the center median.

Bridgeport leaders are working together with mayors and superintendents from Connecticut’s largest cities – Hartford, New Haven, Stamford and Waterbury.

In this year's ranking, small towns in the Northeast dominated for the second year in a row, including four in Connecticut: Stamford in third place, Bridgeport in fifth place, New Haven in eighth place and Waterbury in ninth place.