Raytheon: Job cuts deeper at Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace than first announced as COVID-19 slammed aviation
Raytheon Technologies Corp. on Tuesday reported another quarterly drop in commercial aerospace sales due to…
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Hartford City Council takes increases in parking lot licensing fees off the table, but just for now
“This does not mean the ordinance is going away,” Councilman James Sanchez, a Democrat, said….
Rivals seeking sports betting franchise in Connecticut make their case to state lawmakers hammering out a gambling rewrite
In January 2020, before COVID-19 derailed the legislative session, lawmakers led by Sen. Cathy Osten,…
Anheuser-Busch joins Coke, Pepsi in skipping Super Bowl ads for iconic brands
The pandemic has cut sharply into sales for many Super Bowl advertisers. With pricey ads…
Godiva to close stores but you’ll still be able to buy its boxes of chocolates
The well-known brand was founded in 1926 by a family in Brussels who named it…
Connecticut’s restaurants and hotels, hit hard at Christmas, posted job losses in December as state labor force shrank
Not surprisingly, leisure and hospitality employment was the hardest hit in 2020, falling 19.7% and…
‘Grand on Ann’ apartments pioneered a wave of new rentals in downtown Hartford, but the building now faces foreclosure because of the pandemic
Michael W. Freimuth, CRDA’s executive director, said the apartment building got hit hard as the…
NBC to end its sports cable channel in Stamford by the end of the year
“At the conclusion of 2021, we have decided that the best strategic next step for…
DoorDash donates $500,000 to Connecticut Restaurant Relief Fund
In a statement, CRA Executive Director Scott Dolch says DoorDash’s donation “will provide much-needed financial…
Gov. Ned Lamont tells Connecticut businesses he’s ruling out ‘broad-based’ tax increases
Sal Luciano, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, who is pushing for higher taxes on the…
Billionaire Samsung heir gets 2.5-year prison term over bribery scheme that also jailed ex-president
Lee, 52, was originally sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison for offering 8.6…
Brian Shactman joins WTIC-AM morning show to co-host with Ray Dunaway
Shactman, 49, replaces Joe D’Ambrosio, who left the station after 28 years at the end…
Higher parking lot licensing fees in downtown Hartford sought to spur redevelopment, but opponents just see the cost of parking going up
The Hartford-Aetna Building once stood at the corner of Main and Asylum streets in downtown…
Connecticut probing Amazon’s e-book deals with publishers
Tong’s office issued a subpoena to Amazon in 2019 requesting documents about the company’s dealings…
US report: Design problems could lead to cost increases and production delays for Electric Boat’s Columbia submarine
Participants at a groundbreaking in September 2019 for General Dynamics Electric Boat’s south yard assembly…
Home sales in greater Hartford were the strongest in years even as the area slogged through COVID-19 pandemic
The median sale price — in which half the sales are above, half below —…
Aerospace manufacturer, hit hard by COVID-19, to shut Massachusetts plant and consolidate in East Hartford
Scott Livingston, president and CEO of Horst Engineering, which announced Wednesday it is closing its…
The Jerk Pit Cafe in Hartford closed because of the pandemic, but a new federal loan could help it reopen; Paycheck Protection Program will target smaller businesses this time
Natalia Henriques, owner of The Jerk Pit Cafe, stands in her restaurant Wednesday, Jan. 13,…
Student activists protest in Hartford and demand state action to cancel natural gas plant in Killingly
Will Healey, spokesman for the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, said pending permits are…
Longtime chef and ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ contestant was out of work when Hartford Baking Co.’s founder approached him with a new concept; now the two are bringing Citizen Chicken and Donuts to West Hartford
Van Hurd, executive chef for Hartford Baking Company, holds new menu items including buttermilk fried…
Czech firearms company in negotiations to buy Colt, an American legend and Connecticut fixture for nearly 175 years
Gun manufacturer Colt, an American legend and Connecticut fixture for nearly 175 years, could come…
‘Our state capital is totally crumbling:’ Connecticut rolls out 2nd small-business aid program as surging pandemic hammers retailers and restaurants
Like many other Connecticut small businesses, Morneault’s Stackpole Moore Tryon has been hit hard by…
CVS Health is ready to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to the general public, eventually distributing as many as 25M doses a month across the country
“We are ready in our CVS pharmacies to administer the vaccine,” Karen S. Lynch, who…
US loses 140,000 jobs, first monthly loss since spring, as unemployment remains at 6.7%
Last month, restaurants, bars, hotels, casinos, movie theaters and other entertainment venues shed nearly 500,000…