The permitting process to allow F&G to operate a garbage plant in the South End of Waterbury has not met the legal outreach requirements that protect a distressed Hispanic population living within a ...

Brass Beginnings Story By Raechel Guest Waterbury has been referred to as “The Brass City” and “The Brass Capitol of The World”. This article is the first in a four part series written by Raechel ...

Neil O’Leary, right, and Michael Gugliotti embraced on Election Day 2011 moments after O’Leary knew he’d ended Michael Jarjura’s 10-year reign as mayor of Waterbury. Gugliotti was the police chief at ...

Picture the unfolding development projects in Waterbury as pieces of a massive jigsaw puzzle that has taken a decade to position across the landscape. There are a dizzying number of projects now at ...

Bill and Janice Smolinski continue to sift through hundreds of police reports to try and find the missing piece of the puzzle that will reveal where their son was buried in 2004. For much of the past ...

Waterbury Board of Education Commissioner Tom Van Stone Sr. Column by John Murray A unique intersection of opportunity and need has presented itself in Waterbury as the city roils with racial tension ...

A dial painter suffered from radium-induced sarcoma of the chin. The workers, mostly young women, used their mouthes to form sharp points on the brush that they would dip in and out of radium paint.

Regan committed one of Waterbury’s most publicized crimes of the past three decades when in 1993 he climbed onto a roof, put on a hood and a bad Jamaican accent, entered a second story window and ...

Story By Robert Muldoon and John Murray The Connecticut State Police has stonewalled a n investigation by The Waterbury Observer into six cold case murders going back to 1988. Despite a total ...

Decades after being identified as a Superfund Site by the EPA, the Scovill Industrial Landfill in Waterbury is about to be cleaned up. Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary, who serves on EPA’s Local ...

My reporting about Donna Palomba initially triggered a Dateline show in 2007, and producers and film crews returned to Waterbury in 2020, and 2021, to update the story and create the entirely new ...

State Senator Joan Hartley (D-Waterbury), co-chair of the Connecticut General Assembly’s bipartisan Manufacturing Caucus, hosted a meeting of the caucus’ membership on identifying issues of ...